ANDY WARHOL/ PRINTS/ FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF JORDAN D. SCHNITZER AND HIS FAMILY

Printmaking was a vital artistic practice for Warhol. In their fascination with popular culture and provocative subverting of the di fference between original and copy Warhols prints are recognized now as a prescient forerunner of todays hyper-sophisticated, hype r-saturated and hyper-accelerated visual culture. Im for mechanical art, said Andy Warhol (192887). When I took up silkscreening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived im age through commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.Printmaking was a vital artistic pract...[Llegir més]