Reading Andy Warhol
dal 16/9/2013 al 11/1/2014
Segnalato da
16/9/2013
Reading Andy Warhol
Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Was Andy Warhol an intellectual or rather a comic-book reader? The exhibition at the Museum Brandhorst is the first to show that Warhol continuously worked on books from his student days in the 1940s until his death in 1987.
Curated by Nina Schleif
Was Andy Warhol an intellectual or rather a comic-book reader? That the
most famous proponent of Pop Art had a very close affinity to books to
this day is not even known to many connoisseurs. The exhibition at the
Museum Brandhorst is the first to show that Warhol continuously worked
on books from his student days in the 1940s until his death in 1987. While
still a student he made illustrations after famous novels.
As a successful
commercial artist he created entertaining thematic booklets in the ’50s
that he distributed in the New York fashion world as promotional gifts. It
was not long before Warhol received commissions from major publishers
such as Doubleday and New Directions to design book covers and
illustrate cookery or children’s books. During the first few years in the
Factory, the artist – who had since risen to fame – gave writer-friends
silkscreen prints and photos for their poetry books.
Together with other
artists in the Factory, he went on to make illustrated volumes using
photographs and film material created there. Based on audio tape
recordings he also wrote texts that pushed back the boundaries of
conventional literary genres and, at the same time, shaped the image
Warhol created for himself. In this chronologically structured show the
books designed by Warhol reveal a surprisingly unknown facet of the
famous artist.
Holdings of artists’ book in the Brandhorst Collection include copies of
the most important artists’ books from the 1950s as well as several photo
books. Complementing these, key exhibits will be on loan from the first-
rate holdings of Warhol’s works at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in
Munich.
Major loans of original works have come from the Williams College
Museum of Art that has a unique collection of early works by Warhol, as
well as recently discovered manuscripts in private ownership in America.
Several books have been made available by private lenders in Germany.
The catalogue is the first monograph on Warhol’s books and is available
in German or English. With more than 300 illustrations and 12 essays by
German and American experts it includes introductory texts on certain
genres and detailed contributions on individual works.
It also gives readers an overview of Warhol’s multifaceted production of
and for books from the 1940s to the ’80s. Enriched with archival material
from Warhol’s estate that had previously been unknown, the catalogue
provides a completely new look at perhaps the most famous artist of the
second half of the 20th century (304 pages, ca. 310 images, ISBN 978-3-
7757-3707-4, ca. 39,80 € in the museum shop).
Further information and images are available by calling + 49.89.23805-1321 or
via e-mail to presse@museum-brandhorst.de.
Tine Nehler M.A.
Head of Press Department
Pinakotheken im Kunstareal | Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlunge
Kunstareal | Barer Straße 29 | D 80799 Munich
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Press Preview: 17 September 2013, 11 a.m.
Opening: 17 September 2013, 7 p.m.
Museum Brandhorst
Theresienstrasse 35a, Munich
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