{"product_id":"andy-warhol-love-sex-and-desire-drawings-1950-1962-9783836574471","title":"Andy Warhol. Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950-1962","description":"\u003cp\u003eWell before Andy Warhol's rise to the pinnacle of Pop Art, he created and exhibited seductive drawings celebrating male beauty. \u003cem\u003eAndy Warhol Love, Sex, \u0026amp; Desire: Drawings 1950-1962\u003c\/em\u003e features over \u003cstrong\u003ethree hundred drawings\u003c\/strong\u003e rendered primarily in ink on paper portraying young men, many of them nude, some sexually charged, and occasionally adorned with whimsical black hearts and delightful embellishments. They lounge or preen, proud of or even bored by their beauty, while the artist sketches them, rapt. They rarely engage with their keen observer, and likewise Warhol's focus is on \u003cstrong\u003etheir form, their erotic qualities, and unbridled sexuality\u003c\/strong\u003e. If his subjects are content to revel in their attractiveness, so too is Warhol. His confident hand illustrates a multitude of colorful characters, yet also reveals much about this \u003cstrong\u003eenigmatic artist\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Warhol was already a booming commercial illustrator when he exhibited studies from this body of work at the Bodley Gallery on New York's Upper East Side in 1956. He mistakenly saw these illustrations as his way of breaking into the New York art scene, underestimating the pervading homophobia of the time. While he never saw through his plan to publish the drawings as a monograph, he did produce more than a thousand elegant, seemingly effortless drawings from life. This volume \u003cstrong\u003efinally brings his project to fruition\u003c\/strong\u003e by gathering his most striking images, \u003cstrong\u003epublished here for the first time \u003c\/strong\u003ein a comprehensive book and chosen by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Edited and featuring an introduction by the Foundation's \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Dayton Hermann\u003c\/strong\u003e, and essays by Warhol biographer \u003cstrong\u003eBlake Gopnik\u003c\/strong\u003e and art critic \u003cstrong\u003eDrew Zeiba\u003c\/strong\u003e. The inclusion of poems by James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Harold Norse, Essex Hemphill and Allen Ginsberg create moments of introspection, which expand on the themes and moods present in the drawings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In style, the drawings evoke the sketches of Jean Cocteau and even Matisse: highly distilled and sure of line, yet loose. The sly voyeurism, meanwhile, is entirely Warhol's own, and even the most risqué drawings contain a kind of droll humor--a sense of ironic detachment--that \u003cstrong\u003ewould become a Warhol trademark\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZeiba, Drew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Drew Zeiba is associate editor of PIN-UP and a regular contributor to The Architect's Newspaper. His work has appeared online and in print in publications such as Artforum, Garage, Vulture, Out, Elephant, Flaunt, and Sign Unseen among others.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGopnik, Blake:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Blake Gopnik was the chief arts critic of The Washington Post between 2000-2010 and is a regular contributor to The New York Times. His definitive biography of the artist Warhol was published in 2020. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHermann, Michael Dayton:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michael Dayton Hermann received his MFA from Hunter College where he studied art theory with conceptual artist Robert Morris. In addition to his practice as a multidisciplinary artist, Hermann is the Director of Licensing, Marketing, and Sales at The Andy Warhol Foundation, where he developed notable high-profile Warhol projects including collaborations with Calvin Klein, Dior, Comme des Garçons, Supreme, Absolut, and Perrier. He conceived and edited TASCHEN's Warhol on Basquiat and has also worked closely with TASCHEN on two publications he conceived: Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958-1987 and Andy Warhol: Seven Illustrated Books 1952-1959.","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644633157906,"sku":"9783836574471","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_da87bd4a-9adf-489a-a7f6-e9e97ccb7ce4.jpg?v=1733119373","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/andy-warhol-love-sex-and-desire-drawings-1950-1962-9783836574471","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}