Warhol
开始时间: 04/22/2022
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This course will
introduce you to the life and work of Andy Warhol, one of the world’s most
famous artists. It will:
- Explore
why Warhol has international standing both within and beyond the art establishment;
- Examine
how artistic worth and value is constructed and attributed;
- Interrogate
some of Warhol’s main thematic concerns and major creative innovations;
- Position Warhol in relation to major artistic movements of the 20th
century (Dada, minimalism, Pop Art, structuralism, etc).
This course has been
developed as part of the ARTIST ROOMS research partnership between the
University of Edinburgh, Tate, and the National Galleries of Scotland. It is delivered collaboratively by staff based in the School of Design at ECA and
the School of Education.
课程大纲
Week 1: Celebrity
Subjects to
be explored will include:
- Warhol’s early investment
in stars and celebrities, as seen (for example) in his early illustrations of
James Dean;
- Warhol’s screenprints of
stars, based on mass media images: Monroe, Elvis, Jackie, etc. The connection
often made between these screenprints and Walter Benjamin’s arguments about
‘art in the age of mass reproduction’ will be examined;
- Warhol’s creation of his
own group of ‘superstars’, especially through his filmmaking activities;
- Warhol as a celebrity in
his own right;
- Acting and performance: how
Warhol’s interviews and his films explore what it means to ‘perform’ stardom;
- Creation of Interview magazine;
- Warhol’s move from the
subcultural scene in the 1960s to mainstream celebrity circles in the 1980s.
Week 2: Sex
‘After being
alive, the next hardest work is having sex. […] It’s just as much work for an
attractive person not to have sex as
for an unattractive person to have sex…’ (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol).
Subjects to
be explored will include:
- The common misconception of
Warhol as an asexual machine;
- The regular appearance of
homoerotic imagery throughout Warhol’s work: line drawings of boys; genital
photography portraits; ‘tease’ content of films such as My Hustler and Blow Job;
- Overt ‘straight’ sexual
content in e.g. Blue Movie
- Coded sexual content in
seemingly banal material (e.g., the World’s Fair mural Thirteen Most Wanted Men)
- Warhol and censorship
Week 3: Money
‘Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a
commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the
thing called “art” or whatever it’s called, I went into business art. I wanted
to be an Art Businessman or a Business Artist. Being good in business is the
most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of
business – they’d say, “Money is bad”, and “Working is bad”, but making money
is art and working is art and good business is the best art.’ (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol)
Subjects to be explored will include:
- The value of Warhol’s art in the market;
- The shifting value of some of Warhol’s work
(such as his photography);
- Warhol’s use of cheap household products (Brillo
pads, soup cans, comic books, etc) as the basis for works of art;
- The beginnings of Warhol’s career as a window
dresser, and as a commercial artist;
- Warhol’s own arguments about money and
commercial art.
Week 4: Death
Subjects to be explored will include:
- The Death
and Disaster series of screenprints;
- Death as a significant component of Warhol’s
portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy;
- Valerie Solanas’ attempted assassination of
Warhol in 1968, and the impact this had on his work;
- Accusations for the deaths of such Factory
figures as Freddy Herko and Edie Sedgwick;
- Echoes of mortality in Warhol’s later works,
including screenprints of guns and skulls, self-portraits with skulls, images
from biology books, etc;
- Arguments by Thomas Crow (‘Saturday Disasters’)
and Stephen Koch (Stargazer) about
the centrality of death in Warhol’s work.
Week 5: Time
Subjects to be explored will include:
- The lasting status of Warhol’s most iconic
works, including how such iconicity is established;
- The rate of operation in Warhol’s studio: fierce
fabrication speeds;
- Stillness and slowness in some of Warhol’s films
and photographs, such as Empire and the Screen Tests series;
- Warhol’s Time Capsules;
- Repetition and difference as central tropes in
Warhol’s work.
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An introduction to the life and work of Andy Warhol, one of the world’s most famous artists, through exploration of five thematic framings of his life and career: celebrity; sex; money; death; and time.
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