Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World
By Gary Indiana.
Description
In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angelesand sent the art world reeling. The responses ran from incredulity to outrage; the poet Taylor Mead described the exhibition as a brilliant slap in the face to America.” The exhibition put Warhol on the mapand transformed American culture forever. Almost single-handedly, Warhol collapsed the centuries-old distinction between high” and low” culture, and created a new and radically modern aesthetic.In Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World, the d...
ISBN(s)
0465002331, 9780465002337
