Andy Warhol: 5 Deaths
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Andy Warhol: 5 Deaths Details
“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 MalangaWithin 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.
Reviews
This is a high-quality catalogue on a small Warhol exhibition held in a commercial gallery that focused on one of the artist's Death and Disaster series, depicting a car accident scene. The illustrations accurately show Warhol's mastery of color and the mechanization, dehumanizing effect the repetition of the same scene (albeit a horrific one)in an endless variety of colors and formats can have on the viewer.An interesting conversation between artist Jeff Koons and Warhol's long-time friend Gerard Malanga helps the reader understand the artist's goal, ideas and creative process.
