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Andy Warhol: Living Art
. 2007 illus
128 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2007
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About the author
Isabel Kuhl
22 books2 followersIsabel Kuhl is an art historian living in Cologne, Germany. Her books include Andy Warhol and Vincent van Gogh (both by Prestel).
Dr. Isabel Kuhl ist Kunsthistorikerin, freie Lektorin und Autorin, die schon zahlreiche Publikationen bei Prestel veröffentlicht hat. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Köln.
Dr. Isabel Kuhl ist Kunsthistorikerin, freie Lektorin und Autorin, die schon zahlreiche Publikationen bei Prestel veröffentlicht hat. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Köln.
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May 27, 2023
On the good side: Some interesting background info on Warhol that fills in some knowledge gaps. Plenty of plates.
I had some major issues with the English translation however. I don’t read any German but I really hope the original is better written. The translation reads like a poor GCSE English essay. Andy deserves better than this. Also there is a lot of repetition throughout the book. The sections seemed to have been stitched together without regard for flow of narrative in the compiled result.
Many of the plates do not show the date and title of the works which is very frustrating. Thank goodness for google image search but this really shouldn’t be necessary! The comments against many of the plates seem very much an afterthought and bear at best a passing relevance to the art work associated with it.
On the other hand if you take all this as tongue in cheek irony I suppose that could have some merit!
It’s a great book to whizz through the plates (some I had not seen before), but much of the text is rather banal. I hope this is “expression lost in poor translation”.
I had some major issues with the English translation however. I don’t read any German but I really hope the original is better written. The translation reads like a poor GCSE English essay. Andy deserves better than this. Also there is a lot of repetition throughout the book. The sections seemed to have been stitched together without regard for flow of narrative in the compiled result.
Many of the plates do not show the date and title of the works which is very frustrating. Thank goodness for google image search but this really shouldn’t be necessary! The comments against many of the plates seem very much an afterthought and bear at best a passing relevance to the art work associated with it.
On the other hand if you take all this as tongue in cheek irony I suppose that could have some merit!
It’s a great book to whizz through the plates (some I had not seen before), but much of the text is rather banal. I hope this is “expression lost in poor translation”.
December 17, 2021
Eine Biographie, die einen groben Überblick über Warhols Leben schafft und sein Gesamtwerk mit vielen Bildbeispielen vorstellt.
November 2, 2014
Book has interesting set up and display of information. Has a good biography of Warhol and his influence on that era of New York.
Good book, just not great.
Good book, just not great.
January 29, 2015
A good overview of Andy Warhol's life, with lots of examples of his art.
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