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Andy Warhol Research Guide: Legacy

Introduction

US postage stamp featuring Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol’s influence was pervasive and shaped the future of film, art, and pop culture. Warhol’s world-famous statement, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," captures his keen sense of celebrity making and fame and its place in the future of where we are now. Warhol’s impact and influence reached beyond the surface of artifice and celebrity culture. This page includes resources that inform the many ways he influenced pop culture, validated queer and trans culture, his impact on marketing and branding, and more. 

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Books

Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World

In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles--and sent the art world reeling. The responses ran from incredulity to outrage. The exhibition put Warhol on the map--and transformed American culture forever. Almost single-handedly, Warhol collapsed the centuries-old distinction between "high" and "low" culture, and created a new and radically modern aesthetic.

The Warhol Look

Today's merging of art and fashion is in large measure the legacy of Andy Warhol. This book, which accompanied a major exhibition opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, shows the decisive impact of his work on fashion and glamor and how the "Warhol style" influenced contemporary art.

Pop Trickster Fool: Warhol Performs Naivete

What Andy Warhol didn't know--or pretended not to know--changed history. He habitually adopted the guise of a fool in public, which made it all the harder to grasp what he was getting at with his pop paintings and deadpan films. By making his own apparent lack of competence and intelligence into an elaborate ruse, he became a figure without precedent: a man whose self-conscious naivete has had truly revolutionary impact.

Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans

In 1962, when he painted Campbell's Soup Cans, Andy Warhol was not yet a household name, and Pop art, the movement with which he is now identified, was still on the cusp of becoming a phenomenon. With the Soup Cans, Warhol hit upon a combination of subject, style, and strategy that he would carry forward as his trademark. This volume examines the ways in which the Soup Cans mark a pivotal moment in the artist's career, and Warhol's profound impact on art-making.

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