{"title":"Books by Michael Dayton Hermann","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"andy-warhol-love-sex-and-desire-nudes-drawings-1950-1962-taschen","title":"Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"1046\"\u003eLong before Andy Warhol reached the peak of pop art, the artist created and exhibited fascinating drawings celebrating male beauty. \u003cem data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"298\"\u003eAndy Warhol Love, Sex, \u0026amp; Desire: Drawings 1950–1962\u003c\/em\u003e features more than three hundred drawings mainly done in ink on paper. Warhol portrayed young men, many nude, some openly sexualized, and occasionally wearing extravagant black hearts and captivating adornments. They are shown idle or strutting, proud or even bored with their beauty, while the artist draws them mesmerized. They rarely make eye contact with their enthusiastic observer, just as Warhol focuses on their form and erotic qualities. If his models are content to revel in their appeal, the same happens to the artist. His confident stroke depicts a large number of striking characters but also reveals much about this enigmatic artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1048\" data-end=\"2086\"\u003eWarhol was already a rising commercial illustrator when in 1956 he exhibited the studies of this project at the Bodley Gallery in New York’s Upper East Side. He was mistaken in thinking these illustrations would make him known in the city’s art scene, as he underestimated the widespread homophobia of the time. He produced more than a thousand elegant and seemingly simple life drawings, but his plan to gather them in a monograph never came to fruition. This comprehensive volume finally fulfills his project by bringing together his most striking images, published for the first time and selected in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. It includes an introductory text by its editor, Michael Dayton Hermann, of the Andy Warhol Foundation, and essays by Warhol’s biographer Blake Gopnik and art critic Drew Zeiba. Poems by James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Harold Norse, Essex Hemphill, and Allen Ginsberg create moments of introspection that expand the themes and moods present in the drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2088\" data-end=\"2567\"\u003eThe style of the drawings evokes the sketches of Jean Cocteau and even Matisse, with a line as agile as it is refined and precise. Meanwhile, the mischievous voyeurism is typical of Warhol, and even the boldest drawings contain a kind of playful humor, a sense of ironic detachment that would become a personal trademark of Warhol. His confident stroke depicts a large number of striking characters but also reveals much about this enigmatic artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57131226562904,"sku":"LIB-AN-TA-877","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/warhol_early_drawings_va_int_3d_05345_2009250917_id_1321323.jpg?v=1776463833"}],"url":"https:\/\/eu.plasticbooks.com\/en\/collections\/libros-michael-dayton-hermann.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}