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Andy Warhol Portraits.


Andy Warhol Noun 1. Andy Warhol - United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987)
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Tony Shafrazi Tony Shafrazi is an Iranian artist, curator and art dealer.

In 1974 he was arrested by the New York City police department after he spray-painted the words "KILL LIES ALL" onto Pablo Picasso's Guernica, then installed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Andy Warhol is one of the best known American artists
    A list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including
     of the 1960s and renowned for his uncoventional life and art as well as is enduring influence on American pop culture. An influence that continues down to the present time several decades after his death. Famous for his iconic images of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell Soup Cans, he also made art out of the facial images of political, social, entertainment, sports, and music celebrities of his day. This particular body of his work has been compiled and edited by Tony Shafrazi, who enhances this 320-page coffee table art book with 350 color illustrations and informative essays by art critic Noun 1. art critic - a critic of paintings
    critic - a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art
     Carter Ratcliff and art historian Robert Rosenblum Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006) was an American art historian and curator known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to twentieth century.[1]

    Rosenblum was born in New York City in 1927.
    . The men and women whose images were made immortal by Warhol range from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Giorgio Armani, Truman Capote, Jimmy Carter, Joan Collins, Clint Eastwood, Herman Hesse, Alfred Hitcock, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Lenin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Liza Minnelli, Princess Diana, Yves Saint Laurent, O.J. Simpson, Elizabeth Taylor, Tennessee Williams, Natalie Wood, Mao Zedong, and hundreds of others. An important contribution to academic library 20th Century American Art History reference collections, "Andy Warhol Portraits" is a 'must' for the personal collections of Warhol's legions of admirers.
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