Warhol
The Textiles
$50.31
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
16 June 2023
Summary
Andy Warhol (1928–1987), a giant of twentieth century art, is known to most people for his iconic images of soup cans, Coke bottles, and Marilyn Monroe. Before his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s as a Pop Art superstar, Warhol was a highly successful commercial artist in New York.
The late Matt Wrbican, former chief archivist of the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, once said “there are very few stories left to tell about Warhol, but textiles is one of them”. This is the first boo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300270518 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300270518 |
| Author: | Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 958g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 224mm x 277mm |
Critics Review
“A new exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, together with a book by the curators, … showcase for the first time Warhol’s lost and virtually undocumented designs for dress fabric, which the artist produced in New York during the booming postwar years.”—Helen Barrett, Financial Times
“To see [Warhol’s] pre-Pop creations helps to contextualise him in a new, illuminating way.”—Kathryn Reilly, World of Interiors
“Beautifully printed, this is a book of real quality that allows the work room to sing.”—World of Interiors
Geoffrey Rayner
Geoffrey Rayner and Richard Chamberlain are independent gallery owners, researchers, curators, and authors.
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