In a work of great wisdom and insight; art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact; masterful tour of Andy Warholrsquo;s personal; artistic; and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist; including his early reception; relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg; and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works; including their social context and philosophical dimensions; key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp; and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warholrsquo;s time and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figuremdash;artist; political activist; filmmaker; writer; philosophermdash;who retains permanent residence in our national imagination.Danto suggests that "what makes him an American icon is that his subject matter is always something that the ordinary American understands: everything; or nearly everything he made art out of came straight out of the daily lives of very ordinary Americans. . . . The tastes and values of ordinary persons all at once were inseparable from advanced art."
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