Epic doc traces an intellectual history of Warhol
Some company recently was interested in buying my 'aura,' " Andy Warhol once said, as recorded in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.
October 16, 2006 (Press Release) --
Epic doc traces an intellectual history of Warhol
Some company recently was interested in buying my 'aura,' " Andy Warhol once said, as recorded in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. "They didn't want my product. They kept saying, 'We want your aura.' I never figured out what they wanted." Ric Burns's Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film attempts to illuminate the artist's alleged dilemma by both chronicling the evolution of Warhol's public persona and piercing its veil to reveal the conceptual complexities beneath. Burns's interviewees attest that Warhol could not so easily disentangle his own existence from that of his art, and that his celebrity itself including such carefully constructed expressions of faux na etshould be regarded as one of his greatest creations, as rich with intentional meaning as any example from his multitudinous output of paintings, drawings, sculpture, music, writing, films, and business ventures.
Burns eschews the obvious choice to dip back into the well-dredged pool of Factory-ites and fellow travelers (photographer Billy Name and director Paul Morrissey excepted) and opts instead for an unusually erudite roster of biographers, critics, and curators. Even the big names pressed into service are brainy art stars: Laurie Anderson narrates, and Jeff Koons reads Andy's voice when needed (a slyly apt bit of casting, since Koons's entire career could be seen as a vast Warhol quotation, and his own press face is as calculatedly plastic). The result is an intellectual history of Warhol, bucking the trend toward the star-studded VH1-ization of biodocs and constructed with a mission to dispel the artist's own self-created image as high-fashion hobnobber in favor of a more profound depiction. Burns argues for a cogitating, agitating Warhol: deep thinker, cultural barometer, and world changer.
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by Ed Halter
Some company recently was interested in buying my 'aura,' " Andy Warhol once said, as recorded in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. "They didn't want my product. They kept saying, 'We want your aura.' I never figured out what they wanted." Ric Burns's Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film attempts to illuminate the artist's alleged dilemma by both chronicling the evolution of Warhol's public persona and piercing its veil to reveal the conceptual complexities beneath. Burns's interviewees attest that Warhol could not so easily disentangle his own existence from that of his art, and that his celebrity itself including such carefully constructed expressions of faux na etshould be regarded as one of his greatest creations, as rich with intentional meaning as any example from his multitudinous output of paintings, drawings, sculpture, music, writing, films, and business ventures.
Burns eschews the obvious choice to dip back into the well-dredged pool of Factory-ites and fellow travelers (photographer Billy Name and director Paul Morrissey excepted) and opts instead for an unusually erudite roster of biographers, critics, and curators. Even the big names pressed into service are brainy art stars: Laurie Anderson narrates, and Jeff Koons reads Andy's voice when needed (a slyly apt bit of casting, since Koons's entire career could be seen as a vast Warhol quotation, and his own press face is as calculatedly plastic). The result is an intellectual history of Warhol, bucking the trend toward the star-studded VH1-ization of biodocs and constructed with a mission to dispel the artist's own self-created image as high-fashion hobnobber in favor of a more profound depiction. Burns argues for a cogitating, agitating Warhol: deep thinker, cultural barometer, and world changer.
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by Ed Halter
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