Andy Warhol: A Retrospective

Provides a summation of the life and career of American artist Andy Warhol
Warhol, who died in 1987, can be viewed as a relentless observer, who dwelled obsessively upon images representative of our century: the electric chair, a jet crash, the Soviet hammer and sickle, screen idols, politicians, symbolic volcanoes. A retrospective now at the museum of modern art in new york, which this lengthy tome catalogues, reveals that some of Warhol’s most suggestive works are among his least well known, to wit, his space age Moonwalk (1987), a Rorschach like series of paintings, and the enormous, Asiatic looking oxidation paintings done in metallic pigments. Packed with 325 color plates and 332 in black and white, this six-pounder includes four academic, hyperbolic essays, 33 pages of first-hand impressions of Warhol by cultural celebs, and 10 pages of his instant wit and wisdom.