In 1961 a fashionable commercial artist named Andy Warhol created an artistic furor in New York with his deadpan versions of the Campbell’s Soup can. Since then he has become the most talked about but least understood artist of the late 20th century. Warhol made acceptable the use of industrial techniques in the creation of paintings obsessed with modern clichés―car crashes, Coke bottles, sex symbols such as Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor. At the same time, his films―Blowjob, Sleep, Chelsea Girls, Lonesome Cowboys―forced us to look at the object/subject, transformed the bizarre into the banal, and remade the form and content of cinematic experiment and production.Originally published in 1971, Peter Gidal’s Andy Warhol was the first book written on Warhol’s films and paintings, a concise and astute analysis of an artistic revolution. ”Idol of the jet set,” ”trend-maker,” superstar, Warhol was taken at more than face value in Gidal’s unconventional and insightful exploration. Twenty years later, Andy Warhol remains a seminal text, essential for a serious understanding of the artist and the work.

Andy Warhol: Films and paintings (Studio Vista/Dutton Pictureback)

Peter Gidal

Dutton Pictureback

Structural film anthology

British Film Institute

This collection of essays by Peter Gidal includes "Theory and Definition of Structural/Materialist Film" and other texts on metaphor, narrative, and against sexual representation. Also discussed in their specificity are works by Samuel Beckett, Thérèse Oulton, Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol. Throughout, Gidal's writing attempts a political aesthetics, polemical as well as theoretical. One of the foremost experimental film-makers in Britain since the late 1960s, Peter Gidal was a central figure at the London Film-Makers' Co-operative, and taught advanced film theory at the Royal College of Art. His previous books include "Andy Warhol: Films and Paintings" (1971) "Understanding Beckett" (1986) and "Materialist Film" (1989). "An essential point of access to the questions and considerations through which Peter Gidal has consistently fought for film - and vision itself - as a process of interrogation. This collection renews the agency of his primary question: 'What is it to view, how to view the unknown?'" (Stuart Comer, Chief Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York) "Radical, spirited, provocative ... Inspiring and invaluable, really. In here we find a welcome voice, singularly unpatronising, nuanced yet fearless in the face of the mind-narrowing opacity of 'everyday life'." (Cerith Wyn Evans) FLARE OUT: AESTHETICS 1966-2016 is edited by Mark Webber and Peter Gidal.

Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966-2016

Arts & Photography

The Visible Press

Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993 (3 Volumes) (English, German and French Edition)

Benjamin H.D. Buchloh

Birgit Pelzer

gerhard-richter

History & Criticism

Edition Cantz

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