The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 2

by Frei, George

• ISBN13: 9780714840871
• ISBN10: 0714840874
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most iconic figure in twentieth century art, an enigmatic personality who not only altered the definition of art itself but also in his wake left a vast and staggeringly complex record of his activities. Warhol's archive consists not only of his artworks but also 1,500 cardboard boxes, flat files, and trunks filled with source material, memorabilia, correspondence, and junk mail. When the catalogue raisonn+ is complete, it will constitute an indisputable record of the artist's paintings, drawings, and sculptures -- some 15,000 works produced by the artist between 1948 and 1987, the year of his death. Volume 2 documents the artist's paintings, sculpture, and installations made between 1964 and 1969, the important period known as "The Factory Years," when Warhol began to acquire Pop Art fame as well as a cadre of collaborators and hangers-on -- all of which made "The Factory" into one of the most mythologized artist's studios ever, and Warhol's work at this time emblematic of his career. This volume documents 23 series and more than 1,400 individual works, including the well-known series Thirteen Most Wanted Men, the box sculptures, approximately 300 works in the Jackie series, and the 1964 and 1964-65 Flowers series, among others. As in Volume 1, Volume 2 includes a fascinating collection of source material -- in particular rare studio photographs taken by Billy Name-Linich, who became the Factory's first de facto photographic historian.In this volume editors Georg Frei and Neil Printz focus on Warhol's serial production, analyzing the evolution of Warhol's working methods and the growing relationship between Warhol's exhibitions and his studio production. They establish a chronology for the works of this period, many of which have been difficult to locate and date due to their seriality. Their text provides both a compelling overview and unparalleled detail of an endlessly fascinating life and career. The project is co-sponsored by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York and Thomas Ammann Fine Art in Zurich.

Author Biography

Georg Frei is a curator, art critic and editor who has been affiliated with Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG in Zurich since 1988. Previously he wrote art, dance, and theatre criticism for several Swiss newspapers and magazines. For the Thomas Ammann gallery he has organized more than a dozen exhibitions and edited the accompanying catalogues on such artists as Picasso, Cy Twombly, Max Beckmann and Willem de Kooning. For the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, he was the Guest Curator of the exhibition 'Andy Warhol: Series and singles, 2000-2001'.

Neil Printz, a specialist in twentieth-century American art, in New York, is currently Editor of the Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné. He is Professor of Art History at Caldwell College in Caldwell, New Jersey.

Sally King-Nero is Curator of Drawings and Photographs at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, a position she has held since 1993. She has been extensively involved in the examination and cataloguing of Warhol's works since the 1980s.