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HSC Visual Art - Case studies: Andy Warhol

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Journal Articles : Wollongong City Council Online Database Collection

Encyclopedia articles:

"His work of the 1950s, much of it commissioned by fashion houses, was charming and often whimsical in tone, typified by outline drawings using a delicate blotted...." from Grove Art Online, via Wollongong City  Library databas collection

"...executing them mechanistically, usually by silk screen, using assistants. Occasionally darker subjects appear, accidents and executions...." from Oxford Companion to Western Art, via Wollongong City  Library databas collection

".....Warhol-like fantasies of media celebrities..." from Oxford Art Online, via Wollongong City  Library databas collection

 

Journal articles:

"...Sometime in late 1948 or early 1949, during his final year of art school at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol changed his style......." from Stimson, Blake, 2001, ‘Andy Warhol's red beard’, The Art Bulletin, Vol.  83, No. 3, September , pp.  527-547.  from Proquest database, via Wollongong City  Library databas collection


".......The early critical essays about Warhol in this book focused on detail about his studio techniques, technical information about his use...." Stinespring, J, 1998, 'The Critical Response to Andy Warhol',  Studies in Art Education, Vol. 40, No. 1, Fall, p. 92. from Proquest database, via Wollongong City  Library databas collection