Book Description
Within Warhol's Death and Disaster series, the so-called Car Crashes comprise the most numerous and diverse set of images. As Gerard Malanga writes in his accompanying essay, "We would return to this silkscreen again and again for several months; in effect, the first painting repeated many times over, this initiating Andy's serial imagery on separate identically shaped canvases, and anticipating the Flower paintings to come." The book also includes a contemporary interview between Malanga and Jeff Koons as well as a reprint of an interview between Malanga and Warhol from 1963. When we were making the 5 Deaths paintings, with the car upside down and the people underneath, Andy asked, "Are they still alive?" as if the accident had actually occurred in front of us. --Gerard Malanga Introduction by Gerard Malanga.~Conversation with Jeff Koons. Hardcover, 10 x 10 in./61 pgs / 20 color and 10 b & w.
Andy Warhol: 5 Deaths FROM THE PUBLISHER
When we were making the 5 Deaths paintings, with the car upside down and the people underneath, Andy asked, "Are they still alive?" as if the accident had actually occurred in front of us. —Gerard Malanga~Andy Warhol's 5 Deaths series (in which only two of the car's passengers actually died) is presented here together with a short essay by Malanga and a conversation between Malanga and Jeff Koons about Warhol.
ACCREDITATION
Andy Warhol began his career as a very successful commercial illustrator and became a painter, photographer, printmaker, film and video maker, magazine publisher, author and celebrity. He had his first art exhibition in 1962, at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, which showed his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans. From that point on, Warhol's work revolutionized the art world. Nothing has ever been the same. The artist died of complications from an earlier gun shot wound (gunwoman: Valerie Solaris) in 1987.
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