P&P Live!: Blake Gopnik — WARHOL: A Yuletide Tale

Upcoming Event
Monday, November 30, 2020 - 6:00pm

This event will be streamed online as part of our P&P Live! Series. 

Join Blake Gopnik on P&P Live as he spins a Yuletide tale about Andy Warhol and the ugliest Christmas tree in New York!

In Warhol, esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. “The meanings of his art depend on the way he lived and who he was,” as Gopnik writes. “That’s why the details of his biography matter more than for almost any cultural figure,” from his working-class Pittsburgh upbringing as the child of immigrants to his early career in commercial art to his total immersion in the “performance” of being an artist, accompanied by global fame and stardom—and his attempted assassination.

Wide-ranging and immersive, Warhol gives us the most robust and intricate picture to date of a man and an artist who consistently defied easy categorization and whose life and work continue to profoundly affect our culture and society today.

Blake Gopnik, one of North America’s leading arts writers, has served as art and design critic at Newsweek, and as chief art critic at the Washington Post and Canada’s Globe and Mail. In 2017, he was a Cullman Center Fellow in residence at the New York Public Library, and in 2015 he held a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at City University of New York. He has a PhD in art history from Oxford University and is a regular contributor to the New York Times.

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P&P Live!
Washington, DC 20008
Non Fiction
Offsite
Warhol By Blake Gopnik Cover Image
$45.00
ISBN: 9780062298393
Availability: Backordered
Published: Ecco - April 28th, 2020

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