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New additions include a section focusing on Warhol's popular portraits, with documentation of prints that were related to paintings commissioned during the 1970s and 1980s, and a new supplement featuring prints and illustrated books from the 1950s, including the beloved 25 Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy.
An essay by Donna De Salvo addresses Warhol's self-published books and portfolios from the same era.
In the printmaking field alone, his output was prolific, and his appropriation of silkscreen as a fine-art medium forever altered the way prints look. This thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition of Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1962-1987 traces Warhol's complete graphic oeuvre from his first unique works on paper in 1962 through his final published portfolio in 1987.
More than 1,700 works are illustrated, an increase of 500 from the previous edition of the catalogue raisonné, and complete documentation is provided for each.
This thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition of Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1962-1987 traces Warhol's complete graphic oeuvre from his first unique works on paper in 1962 through his final published portfolio in 1987.
More than 1,700 works are illustrated, an increase of 500 from the previous edition of the catalogue raisonné, and complete documentation is provided for each.
At the same time, and more than ever, artists need the supportive community and creative encouragement that these organizations provide.”
Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné : 1962-1987
The updated edition of the definitive, authorized catalogue raisonne of Andy Warhol's prints, reproducing more than 1,700 prints -- all in full color with complete scholarly documentation
Andy Warhol: Prints, in its fourth edition, with corrections, is the definitive scholarly reference source for collectors, auction houses, libraries, curators, academics and art dealers.
Andy Warhol spent his career working so prodigiously as to assure long-lasting renown. Non-profit arts organizations face profound challenges due to the political, economic, social and cultural upheavals of our current moment. An extensive chronology of printmaking activity, a complete exhibition history, a selected bibliography and a greatly expanded appendix to published prints complete the book.
Publication Date
April 1, 2003
Keywords
Art | Popular Culture; Art | History | Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art | Individual Artists | Monographs; Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | General; Art | Reference; Art | Techniques | Printmaking
9781891024634
Printmaking techniques were central to Andy Warhol’s work, from the inception of his career as an illustrator during the 1950s to his final works in 1987.
Two years after Warhol’s death, an expanded second edition that included 48 new prints was published with an introduction by Henry Geldzahler, an essay by Roberta Bernstein, and an interview with Rupert Jasen Smith, Warhol’s printer from 1977 to 1987.
Revised and expanded third and fourth editions of Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987 were published in 1997 and 2003, and co-sponsored by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
It was a joint venture of Frayda Feldman of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York and Jörg Schellmann of Edition Schellmann, Munich. In the printmaking field alone, his output was prolific, and his appropriation of silkscreen as a fine-art medium forever altered the way prints look. Another highlight is a 33-page supplement covering the illustrated books and portfolios Warhol created in the 1950s, which documents techniques that reappear, in more developed forms, in his later prints.
In the printmaking field alone, his output was prolific, and his appropriation of silkscreen as a fine-art medium forever altered the way prints look. This thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition of Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1962-1987 traces Warhol's complete graphic oeuvre from his first unique works on paper in 1962 through his final published portfolio in 1987.
More than 1,700 works are illustrated, an increase of 500 from the previous edition of the catalogue raisonné, and complete documentation is provided for each.
As well as documenting Warhol’s unpublished prints and trial proof editions, both editions included chronologies of Warhol’s printmaking activity, a print exhibition history, and selected bibliography, and glossary.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he had already achieved cultural celebrity but his career as a painter was in a period of transition and crisis, Warhol suddenly emerged as a brilliant and dedicated printmaker, producing portfolios of Marilyn Monroe (1967), Flash-November 22, 1963 (1968), Campbell’s Soup (1968-69), Flowers (1970), Electric Chairs (1971), Sunset (1972), and Mao (1972) in stunning succession.
Andy Warhol spent his career working so prodigiously as to assure long-lasting renown.
More than 1,700 works are illustrated, an increase of 500 from the previous edition of the catalogue raisonné, and complete documentation is provided for each.
As the authoritative reference to his prodigious body of prints, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987 testifies not only to Warhol’s indisputable importance as a graphic artist, but to his unflagging sense of invention and mastery of multiple visual media from illustration and drawing, to painting, sculpture and printmaking, and film, video and photography.