WARHOL'S WORKING CLASS

This book explores Andy Warhols creative engagement with social class. During the 1960s, as neoliberalism perpetuated the idea that fixed classes were a mirage and status an individual achievement, Warhols work appropriated images, techniques, and technologies t hat have long been described as generically American or middle class. Drawing on archival and theoretical research into Warhols contemporary cultural milieu, Grudin demonstrates that these features of Warhols work were in fact closely associated with the Ame rican working cl...[Read more]