CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/9/2015

Andy Warhol: Prints

"More than any other artist of his generation, Andy Warhol understood how the reproduced image had come to reflect and shape contemporary life," Donna De Salvo writes in the definitive new edition of Andy Warhol: Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962–1987. "His paintings of Coca-Cola bottles, race riots in Birmingham, Alabama, and the empty desolation of the death chamber are like a catalogue of contemporary hieroglyphs scattered across the American landscape. Warhol's decision to select images from popular culture and combine them with the printing processes of the commercial world was an essential element of his Pop statement. With nearly scientific fervor, he dissected the very mechanics of image production and, through this unexpected commonplace vehicle, discovered a way to be original." This selection of Warhol's 1971 Electric Chairs edition is reproduced from the book, one of our top Holiday Gift Books of 2015. >>