Instant Andy. Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol

“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.” - Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation, this book features hundreds of these instant photos, many of them never seen before.

Portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pelé, Debbie Harry are included alongside images of Warhol’s entourage and high life, landscapes, and still lifes from Cabbage Patch dolls to the iconic soup cans. Often raw and impromptu, the Polaroids document Warhol’s era like Instagram captures our own, offering a unique record of the life, world, and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant.

The author

Richard B. Woodward is a New York-based art critic who contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. His journalism has appeared in numerous publications, from The Atlantic, Bookforum, Film Comment, The American Scholar, and The New Yorker to Vanity Fair, Interview, and Vogue. His essays on art and photography have been featured in more than 20 monographs and museum catalogues.

The editor

Reuel Golden graduated in politics from the University of Sussex, UK, and is the former editor of the British Journal of Photography. He has edited various titles for TASCHEN including The Rolling Stones, Her Majesty, Harry Benson: The Beatles, Age of Innocence: Football in the 1970s, and the New York and London editions of the Portrait of a City series.

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О книге Andy Warhol. Polaroids

AndyWarhol. Polaroids – расскажет вам историю «Мгновенного» Andy, как его называли. До того, как появился современный Инстаграмм, «фото в моменте» делал Уорхол.

«Я хочу запомнить, где я был каждую минуту своей жизни. Вот зачем я снимаю. Это дневник воспоминаний», - так говорил известный фотограф.

Энди Уорхол

Энди Уорхолбыл не устающим летописцем своей жизни. Всегда носил с собой камеру Polaroids с конца 1950-х годов, и аж до смерти в 1987 году. Он собрал большую коллекцию быстрых фото друзей, влюбленных, меценатов, знаменитостей, неизвестных, художников, модельеров и конечно, себя.

Книга AndyWarhol. Polaroidsсоздана в тесном общении с фондом Энди Уорхола и имеет на свих страницах сотни фотографий, многие из которых никогда ранее не публиковались.Портреты таких известных личностей, как Мик Джаггер, Альфред Хичкок, Джек Николсон, Ив Сен

Лоран, Пеле, Дебби Гарри. Вместе со снимкамиближайшего окружения Уорхола и его публичной жизни. А также, пейзажи и натюрморты, от кукол из капусты, до легендарных суповых банок.

Фотографии Polaroids, часто сырые и импровизируемые вошли в историю, как эпоха Уорхола. Как сегодняшний Instagram захватывает нашу жизнь, эти фото – способ заглянуть в жизнь и мир великого маэстро поп-арта и гиганта модернизма.

Автор

Ричард Б. Вудворд - искусствовед из Нью-Йорка, регулярно вносящий вклад в Уолл-стрит

Журнал и Нью-Йорк Таймс. Его журналистские работы появлялись в многочисленных публикациях из Atlantic, Bookforum. Как комментарии к фильмам «Американский ученый» и «Ярмарка тщеславия» от NewYorker, в интервью в журнале Vogue. Его эссе об искусстве и фотографии были представлены в более чем 20 монографиях и музейных каталогах.

Редактор

Руил Голден окончил политический факультет Университета Сассекса в Великобритании и является бывшим редактором Британского Журнала Фотографии. Он редактировал различные издания для TASCHEN, включая The Rolling Стоунс, Ее Величество, Гарри Бенсон: Битлз, Эпоха невинности: футбол в 1970-х годах, Нью-йоркские и лондонские издания серии «Портрет города».

Энди Уорхол всюду брал с собой фотоаппарат, и его "Америка" - выборка из поразительных кадров, отснятых за 10 лет, - задумана как подобие всей страны с ее странной красотой и ошеломляющей противоречивостью. Исследуя случаи сильнейшей одержимости - в том числе помешательства на имидже и знаменитостях, Уорхол фотографирует рестлеров и политиков, красивых богачей и обездоленных бедняков, Трумэна Капоте со свежими шрамами от подтяжки лица и Мадонну, которая пытается спрятаться за нестандартной для нее прической. Он пишет о своей любимой стране, признается, что жалеет, что не умер, когда его ранили, затрагивает темы коммерционализма, красоты и славы.

Представить себе Америку без Уорхола почти также трудно, как представить себе Уорхола без Америки, и эта книга фотографий - прочувствованное, остроумное объяснение в любви - позволяет великому певцу преходящего высказать глубоко личные мысли.

Энди Уорхол (1928–1987) – культовый американский художник, режиссер, продюсер, издатель, один из основателей поп-арта. В своей автобиографической «Философии» он делится с читателями мыслями о славе, отношениях, деньгах, сексе, еде, моде, работе, времени, Нью-Йорке и о том, что значит быть современным. В отличие от книг других художников, манифест Уорхола – литературное произведение, в котором размышления об искусстве чередуются с воспоминаниями о детстве, а диалоги с вымышленным Б – с полноценными рассказами от первого лица. Все это делает «Философию» еще одним великим поп-произведением художника, созданным на этот раз с помощью слов, а не красок.

"До того как в меня стреляли, я всегда думал, что я здесь скорее наполовину, нежели полностью, — я всегда подозревал, что смотрю телевизор вместо того, чтобы жить жизнь. Иногда говорят, что события в кино нереальны, но на самом деле нереально то, что с тобой происходит в жизни. На экране эмоции выглядят сильными и правдивыми, а когда с тобой действительно что-то случается, то ты как будто смотришь телевизор — ты ничего не чувствуешь".
Энди Уорхол

"Остроумно. Точно. Выполнено, как и все, что выходит из под кисти мистера Уорхола, с блеском. Бесконечно развлекательно и познавательно".
Трумен Капоте

There is perhaps no artist of the 20th century that is as famous and infamous as Andy Warhol; Andy Warhol "Giant" Size takes its inspiration from the over-the-top quality of Andy Warhol's life, career, and legacy and in a mammoth format and huge extent depicts, in roughly chronological order, the major events, people, works, and moments in the life of an artist who continues to be endlessly fascinating to those inside and outside of the art world. Now available in a new format.

- A spectacular visual biography of the life and career of one of the most colourful and innovative artists of the twentieth century
- A rare, behind-the-scenes look at the New York art world of the 1950s to the 1980s
- Introduction by renegade art critic Dave Hickey, who has his own cult following, and additional texts by Bruno Bischofberger, Ronnie Cutrone, - David Dalton, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ivan Karp and Peggy Phelan
- A must-have for Warhol fans and any pop culture enthusiast is accessible to all at this amazing new price

Paparazzo - Italian for pesky - is synonymous with Ron Galella, the photographer who made his name capturing celebrities in unguarded, often private moments. Famously banned from approaching Jackie Onassis and punched by Marlon Brando, Galella was a favorite of Andy Warhol, who shared his fascination with the great and near-great. Warhol himself recorded his nightly rounds through a seemingly endless parade of parties, openings, and happenings in his diaries. In these photographs Galella presents the definitive visual diary of Warhol's life and times, his entourage, and his haunts. Through his Interview column, "Glenn O'Brien's Beat," O'Brien was a key commentator on the period. His text places Galella in Warhol's world and in the history of modern photography, describing his ground-breaking work, which Warhol was the first to recognize as "the great unauthorized portrait of our time."

The art of Andy Warhol continues to hold surprises for even the seasoned Warhol admirer. The best works from one of the world's largest private collections of Warhol paintings are published here for the first time in book form. Beginning with whimsical paintings from the pre-Pop period, this selection of over 100 works spans the full breadth of Warhol's spectacular career, up until his last project: The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci. More than 200 illustrations, many in full color, give a comprehensive overview of the many facets in the work of the "pope of Pop art."

Of particular interest is a little-known series of "Paintings for Children," published here for the first time. These delightful pictures of ships, planes, robots, and toys were hung just three feet from the floor when first shown in 1983.

A concise biography, richly illustrated with many color plates; quotations from Warhol about art and about himself, as essay on Warhol and the American Dream by David Bourdon; a memoir by art historian and critic Pierre Restany; an interview from 1963 by G.R. Swenson and the last one with Paul Taylor in 1987; as well as a chronology and a detailed and updated bibliography contribute to this fascinating, colorful book.

Following a successful career as a commercial graphic designer, in the early sixties, Andy Warhol (1928–1987) decided to move on to work as a freelance artist. His focus, however, remained on the world of consumption and mass production. This publication illuminates Warhol’s crucial early years—from 1961 to 1964—as a painter and draftsman. During this period, he gradually replaced his individual pictorial language with already medialized (and thus collective) image material as well as the mechanical production of pictures, thus calling into question some of modernity’s fundamental categories. This volume examines this process based on numerous examples, such as the famous Campbell’s Soup Cans and Dollar Bills, the Elvis and Liz series, the Death & Disaster pictures, and the Flowers cycle from 1964. Concentration on the drawings and paintings of the early years demonstrates the far-reaching significance of this oeuvre for art history.

Throughout his career as an artist, filmmaker, director of the Factory, band manager, magazine publisher, and television entrepreneur, Andy Warhol intentionally blurred the line between art and commerce, calling into question the very values of art by claiming, “Good business is the best art.” Andy Warhol Enterprises examines Warhol's complex and multifaceted relationship with commerce in both his work and his life - from his highly successful career as a commercial artist to his reign as a major cultural trendsetter in the eighties. The catalogue features essays by prominent scholars such as Thomas Crow, as well as an interview with Vincent Fremont, one of Warhol’s close associates, in which he illuminates aspects of Warhol’s critical examination of consumer society.

Andy Warhol - A critical observer of American society

Andy Warhol is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist.

Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings ('Campbell-' and 'Brillo' series), as well as their fascination for sensational journalism. In 1963 Warhol founded his 'Factory' in New York, literally a manufactory of ideas and work, which influenced film in the 1960s, published the influential magazine Interview in the late 1970s, and also produced Warhol's own artwork: Warhol conceived the idea, and a 'worker' in his factory carried it out.

The work remained (consciously) unsigned - a fact which nevertheless did nothing to diminish Warhol's reputation. He once complained that rich New Yorkers would willingly hang his "Electric Chain" in their living rooms - as long as its colours co-ordinated with the wallpaper and draperies.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:

* a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
* approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
* a concise biography

As well as being one of the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, occasional sculptor and filmmaker whose work carried on the tradition of Dadaism which questioned the very validity of art itself. He used images and objects, and the means of their production to draw draw parallels with cultural processes. Thus, by means of a variety of techniques, but principally the choice of images, their visual repetition and pictorial isolation, and the use of colour, Warhol makes us aware of contemporary materialism, political manipulation, economic exploitation, conspicuous consumption, media hero-worship, and the creation of artificially-induced needs and aspirations. Through manipulating images and the public persona of the artist, Warhol also confronts us with the contradictions and superficialities of contemporary culture and the art it has engendered, whilst incorporating in his paintings and sculptures the very techniques of mass production that are central to the modern world, emphasizing to the point of absurdity the complete detachment from social and artistic commitment that he saw in the world around him. Despite the unevenness and shallowness of much of his later work, Andy Warhol was one of the most brilliant, challenging and intentionally infuriating artists of the last half of the twentieth century.