Andy Warhol: Sublime Superficiality
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Andy Warhol: Sublime Superficiality Details
Review Tata renders Warhol philosophically anew - and that is no small feat among the seriality of Warholia. --Nicholas Ruiz III, author of America in Absentia, Publisher, Intertheory PressTo whomever Tata might have applied his brilliance, the result would have been dazzling. The book deserves to be read by humanists everywhere. --Arthur Danto, Columbia University Professor Emeritus and author of "Transfiguration of the Commonplace" Read more From the Author I wrote this book as a dual exercise in devotion and exorcism. It is the first in a two-part series, and focuses on the philosophical relevance of Warhol's superficialization of word and world for a media-saturated present. It engages Arthur Danto's alluring notion of the End of Art in the Brillo Box in order to go beyond that terminus toward the place where art continues to play. The second part, temporarily called Inescapable Da-sein, leaves the heady world of aesthetic theory behind for diverse topics relating to Warhol's performativity, self-image, iconicity, and everydayness, with chapters planned on counter-revolution, machinehood, gossip as epistemological object, drug addiction/narcopoetics and meta-celebrity, or fame elevated to a reflective principle. Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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Not your typical academically oriented book, but written with the sensibilities of a poet. Michael Angelo has unlocked Warhol, and I'm never going back. In this simple act of silk-screening a soup can, I never realized before I read this book, how Warhol was revealing in the Pietas of our present age, a conspicuously consumerist drama that is played out whenever we load up our shopping carts at Wal-Mart. Every turn of the page reveals new insights, and the delicious prose entices me like a Frookie version of chocolate mousse cake that I am meant to savor bite by bite.