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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 709.73 EAN: 9780971168718 ISBN: 0971168717 Label: Stellan Holm Gallery Manufacturer: Stellan Holm Gallery Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 61 Publication Date: March 02, 2004 Publisher: Stellan Holm Gallery Release Date: March 02, 2004 Studio: Stellan Holm Gallery Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Description: "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 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Art as a repetitive accidentThis 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 ... Read More 
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