{"product_id":"andy-warhol-the-alchemist-of-the-sixties","title":"Andy Warhol: The Alchemist of the Sixties","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is difficult to overstate the influence that American artist and provocateur Andy Warhol (1928–87) has had on art and culture worldwide since he first premiered the 32 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCampbell’s Soup Cans\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 1962 at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. As part of a burgeoning pop-art scene in New York in the early 1960s, Warhol painted the things and images of the ordinary world―“images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second,” as he explained it. “Comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles―all the great modern things.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWarhol took these “great modern things” into the painter’s studio and, copying and painting them through the photo-silkscreen process, turned them into Warhols. Like an alchemist, Warhol transformed the base materials of reality into something new: into pop art, into transfigured commodities and into art historical icons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAndy Warhol: The Alchemist of the Sixties\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e focuses on this transformative power of Warhol’s work. The publication brings together more than 140 works by Warhol, including examples of some of his most well-known series, like the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJackies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMarilyns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. With a particular focus on Warhol’s engagement with consumerism, mythmaking, music and the sexual revolution of the 1960s, this volume retraces the creative universe of pop art’s most famous figure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePrint length ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e336 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9788836642335\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2.55 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e7 x 1.4 x 9.7 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"D.A.P.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48177387602091,"sku":"9788836642335","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/9449\/6093\/files\/51ZUa4CBEQL._SL1400.jpg?v=1791479804","url":"https:\/\/icastore.org\/products\/andy-warhol-the-alchemist-of-the-sixties","provider":"ICA Retail Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}