Stargazer

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STARGAZER: Andy Warhors World and his Films
Stephen Koch
Paperback re-issue wilh an additional chapter by the author.
^Stargazer is lo die over!' — Andy Warhol
During the 1960s Andy Warhol's haunting work and personality changed the face of the art world, while the man himself passed through a dazzling rise to world-wide fame, a frightening descent into the nether world of drugs, and a bizarre murder attempt which very nearly took his life. During the 1970s — Warhol survived, as the art world he'd changed passed through a crisis and the glamor and music of the drug culture died away. Then, during the eighties, the mute man wilh the silver hair and emaciated face emerged as a new phase on the Manhattan scene.
What kind of man is Warhol? What is the real nature of his talent — and of the odd, obsessed, passive intensity that made him famous?
Stargazer provides an unforgettable portrait of Warhol's most interesting invention — his own public personality: the strange persona... Tovább

Fülszöveg

STARGAZER: Andy Warhors World and his Films
Stephen Koch
Paperback re-issue wilh an additional chapter by the author.
^Stargazer is lo die over!' — Andy Warhol
During the 1960s Andy Warhol's haunting work and personality changed the face of the art world, while the man himself passed through a dazzling rise to world-wide fame, a frightening descent into the nether world of drugs, and a bizarre murder attempt which very nearly took his life. During the 1970s — Warhol survived, as the art world he'd changed passed through a crisis and the glamor and music of the drug culture died away. Then, during the eighties, the mute man wilh the silver hair and emaciated face emerged as a new phase on the Manhattan scene.
What kind of man is Warhol? What is the real nature of his talent — and of the odd, obsessed, passive intensity that made him famous?
Stargazer provides an unforgettable portrait of Warhol's most interesting invention — his own public personality: the strange persona that this fey, frightened and brilliantly talented poor-boy from Pittsburgh created to survive the savage world of his own ambitions. Stargazer explores the Duchampian art and perverse but inventive films that clinched his reputation. It defines what Warhol calls his "Pop Statement". And it meditates on the man and the moment that made all this possible.
' . . .a landmark of American criticism. . . Stargazer is not only compelling beyond anything one expects of criticism, it happens also to be utterly timely." The Boston Phoenix
' . . .a volume of profound insight. Comment
resoundingly brilliant.' Film
'Stephen Koch's book makes clear the essence of Warhol's work ' New York Times Sunday Book Review
". . .sensitive and compelling about form and subject matter.'A^ew York Times
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Stephen Koch was born in 1941 and lives in New York. His novel Nightwatch is now regarded by many as a minor classic, his essays and criticism have appeared in numerous magazines in America and England. He teaches at both Columbia Graduate School and Princeton University.
Illustrated with 45 photographs ISBN 0 7145 1037 8 Paperback
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Film/Pop Culture L6.95 Vissza