Andy Warhol: Pioneer of Pop Art (People to Know)
Category: Books,Teen & Young Adult,Art, Music & Photography
Andy Warhol: Pioneer of Pop Art (People to Know) Details
From School Library Journal Gr 6-9-Should Warhol's work be taken seriously? Ford notes that faculty members at Carnegie Tech couldn't make up their mind about it, wondering if the artist did indeed "show talent and unique creativity. Or were his projects the careless efforts of a young man who was completely unable to draw?" This volume highlights these questions and leaves readers with the same feeling of uncertainty. However, the author does admit that Warhol had a huge influence on the world of art. The book begins with a discussion of his Campbell's soup-can paintings and then backtracks to trace his life from his childhood through his checkered college career to his death in 1987. Readers will be drawn into the narrative more through the accounts of the man's idiosyncrasies than through its compelling prose. The black-and-white photographs are disappointing for the most part; a number are of the buildings in which he worked or exhibited. Still, this is a well-documented title that will be useful where there is an interest in the subject or where the biography section needs to be augmented.Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Read more
Reviews
This book is very interesting and most importantly, easy to read. They seperate the different parts of his life very well and they provide good information on not only his life, but also about the concepts of the Pop Art movement. There is not a lot of pictures in it, mostly text.