Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World

Sobre el libro Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World de Gary Indiana publicado por Basic Book al 2008:

In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled32 Soup Cansin his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles-and 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 map-and transformed American culture forever. Almost single-handedly, Warhol had collapsed the centuries-old distinction between high and low culture, and created a new and radically modern aesthetic. InAndy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World, the dazzlingly versatile critic Gary Indiana draws on interviews with many members of Warhols Factory, as well as his own personal recollections of Warhol himself, to tell the story of the genesis and impact of this iconic work of art. With energy, wit, and tremendous perspicacity, Indiana recovers the exhilaration and controversy of the Pop Art Revolution-and the brilliant, tormented, and profoundly narcissistic figure at its vanguard.