Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 – Plastic Books

Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962

TASCHEN
ANDY WARHOL, DREW ZEIBA, BLAKE GOPNIK, MICHAEL DAYTON HERMANN
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Pages
392 pp.
Language
English
Publisher
Taschen
Year
2020
ISBN
9783836574471
Dimensions
33.7 x 28.0 x 4.31 cm
Written by
Andy Warhol, Drew Zeiba, Blake Gopnik, and Michael Dayton Hermann

Long before Andy Warhol reached the pinnacle of pop art, the artist created and exhibited fascinating drawings that celebrated male beauty. Andy Warhol Love, Sex, & Desire: Drawings 1950–1962 features more than three hundred drawings primarily done in ink on paper. Warhol portrayed young men, many nude, some openly sexualized, and occasionally adorned with extravagant black hearts and captivating decorations. They are shown idle or strutting, proud or even bored with their beauty, while the artist draws them entranced. 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 is true for the artist. His confident line depicts a large number of striking characters but also reveals much about this enigmatic artist.

Warhol was already a rising commercial illustrator when in 1956 he exhibited the studies for 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 over a thousand elegant and seemingly simple life drawings, but his plan to compile them into a monograph never materialized. This comprehensive volume finally fulfills his project by gathering 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.

The 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 hallmark of Warhol. His confident line depicts a large number of striking characters but also reveals much about this enigmatic artist.

Title
Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962
Author
Andy Warhol, Drew Zeiba, Blake Gopnik, Michael Dayton Hermann
Publisher
Taschen
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
392 pp.
ISBN
9783836574471
Categories
Historia y crítica de la figura humana en el arte , Monografías de artistas individuales , Sex Ratgeber für Schwule
LGTBIQ+ representation
Gay , Queer
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