Andy Warhol Drawings 1942-1987 By Mark Francis Dust Jacket 1st Ed

by Mark Francis, Dieter Koepplin

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Andy Warhol: Drawings 1942-1987 by Mark Francis, Dieter Koepplin, Andy Warhol Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel and the Andy Warhol Museum Published by Bulfinch Press 1st Edition January 1, 1999 Hardcover 319 pages 248 color plates ISBN-10: ‎ 0821226088 ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0821226087 9.75 x 1.25 x 12.75 inches Comprehensive Volume documenting Andy Warhol's drawings to date features both well-known images; fun, frivolous portraits; and still lifes, covering the Artist's life and career from 1942 to 1987. Though he is chiefly viewed as a monumental pop-art icon, Andy Warhol was a man of many talents. But Warhol's component parts don't necessarily match up. Warhol created paintings, prints, sculptures, installations and unique performances; he produced one of the greatest rock bands of all time, the Velvet Underground. Warhol also directed films and wrote a novel as well as a philosophical text. But over and above this massive pile of work is a man who was unpredictable, enigmatic, and impenetrable, ultimately, he would have others think, almost inhuman. Drawings on paper are the key to many Artists' souls. Drawings are personal, immediate and limiting. Never more so than in the case of Andy Warhol has a volume of drawings on paper so brought an Artist's humanity forward. He reveals his particular brand of filial affection in an early work titled The Broad Gave Me My Face but I Can Pick My Own Nose--a rebellious youth indeed. His male nudes from the 1950s are passionate and erotic: her

• Publisher: Little Brown & Company
• Year: 1942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine

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