Andy Warhol

Arthur C. Danto

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9780300154986
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Popular Culture in Art

"Astutely traces the ripple effects of Warhol's blurring of the lines between commercial and fine art, and art and real life…masterful."— Booklist (starred review) Art critic, philosopher, and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award Arthur Dantodelivers a compact, masterfultour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and philosophical dimensions, key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp, and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. By drawing on subject matter understandable to the ordinary American, Warhol revolutionized the way we look at art. In this book, Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol's time andshows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure—artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher—who retains permanentresidence in our national imagination.

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

A: A Novel (Warhol), 83, 97, 98

Absolute Spirit concept, 139

Abstract art, xii, 10

Abstract Expressionism, xi, xiv, 6, 22, 23, 58, 64, 108, 109

culture of, 27

end of, xii, 38

enlargement of images, 14–15

nature of, 30

paint quality, 10, 13–14, 15, 16, 27

philosophy of art and, 8–9

subject matter, 10–11

“Abstract Expressionist Coca Cola Bottle, The” (Danto), 16

abstraction, 132

Advertisement (Warhol), 17, 20–21

aesthetics, x, xi, xv, 13, 15, 34, 37, 52, 54–56, 60, 83, 86, 132, 135

Agnelli, Gianni, 117

Alloway, Lawrence, 26

Amayo, Mario, 103

Andy Warhol Enterprises, 92–93, 114, 122, 123, 124, 125, 134

Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes (Warhol), 87, 89

Andy Warhol TV Productions, 88, 90

Angell, Callie, 79, 84

anti-aestheticism, 52, 56

Armory show of 1913, 32

art criticism, 66

art (general discussion): concept of, 48

conceptual experiment in, 81

cultural revolution in, 3, 26, 28–29

definition of, xiv, 65, 78

frontiers of, 3–4, 7

high vs. low, xv, 2, 7, 17, 28

history of, 48, 61, 62, 66, 120, 126

intellectual, 56

life and, 7, 30, 31, 32, 36

mass production of, 93, 147

mass vs. high, 14

philosophical definition of, 36

philosophy of, ix–x, xiii, 48, 65, 135–136

politicization of, xii

racial and ethnic, 109

reality and, 11, 16, 23, 29, 45–46, 64, 67, 71

religious objects and, 136, 139.

See also “What is art?” controversy...