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" Maître des évidences, stratège des apparences, Andy Warhol a beaucoup insisté pour faire croire qu'il n'y avait rien derrière ses images. Et que lui-même n'avait pas grand-chose à dire. Deux ou trois citations partout répétées ont fixé le portrait d'un artiste amusant et superficiel, excentrique et mondain : sous les surfaces lisses de ses tableaux, sous son masque impassible, inutile de chercher autre chose qu'un aimable vide. Les entretiens réunis ici offrent un merveilleux démenti aux clichés qui escamotent le génie de l'artiste et la portée singulière de son œuvre. Provoquant, manipulateur, à la fois indifférent et passionné, contradictoire et lumineux, le dandy Warhol s'y révèle d'une intelligence déconcertante. Qu'il parle de peinture, de cinéma, de mode, de sexe, des stars mondiales ou de l'ordinaire de la vie américaine, il ne perd jamais de vue les exigences de son art. capable de tout montrer et de tout dissimuler dans ses images comme dans ses propos les plus simples, il s'est fait le miroir exact d'une époque futile et grave, hantée par la beauté et la mort. La sûreté " de son diagnostic montre que Warhol est bien le philosophe dont il avait ironiquement pris la pose. Ce recueil d'entretiens, presque tous inédits en français, n'est pas un simple livre de plus sur Warhol : il constitue la source essentielle pour la compréhension du dernier artiste mythique du XXe siècle. " Alain Cueff.

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""What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the last five decades. He makes a compelling argument for its history and value, much as E. H. Gombrich tackled representation fifty years ago in Art and Illusion, another landmark A. W. Mellon Lectures volume. Realizing that these lectures might be his final work, Varnedoe conceived of them as a statement of his faith in modern art and the culminating example of his lucidly pragmatic and philosophical approach to art history. He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction--showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop. The result is a fascinating and ultimately moving tour of a half century of abstract art, concluding with an unforgettable description of one of Varnedoe's favorite works." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006006621-d.html.

Art, Abstract --- Art, American --- USA --- United States --- Abstract art. --- Abstract expressionism. --- Adolf von Hildebrand. --- Aerial perspective. --- Aestheticism. --- Andy Warhol. --- Annie Hall. --- Anti-art. --- Art and Illusion. --- Art history. --- Barnett Newman. --- Brice Marden. --- Calligraphy. --- Carl Andre. --- Classicism. --- Clement Greenberg. --- Clyfford Still. --- Constantin Brâncu?i. --- Cubism. --- Cy Twombly. --- Dan Flavin. --- David Sylvester. --- Donald Judd. --- Drip painting. --- Edvard Munch. --- Ellsworth Kelly. --- Ernst Gombrich. --- Eva Hesse. --- Feminist art. --- Figurative art. --- Fine art. --- Frank Stella. --- Geometric abstraction. --- Gerhard Richter. --- Illusionism (art). --- J. M. W. Turner. --- Jackson Pollock. --- Jasper Johns. --- Josef Albers. --- Kirk Varnedoe. --- Lacquer. --- Lecture. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Mark Rothko. --- Max Bill. --- Michael Fried. --- Minimalism. --- Modern art. --- Modernism. --- National Gallery of Art. --- New Thought. --- Pablo Picasso. --- Peter Eisenman. --- Peter Halley. --- Pop art. --- Postmodernism. --- Rachel Lachowicz. --- Rachel Whiteread. --- Reductive art. --- Richard Serra. --- Robert Rauschenberg. --- Roy Lichtenstein. --- Satire. --- Sherrie Levine. --- Smithsonian Institution. --- Sol LeWitt. --- Terry Winters. --- Whitney Museum of American Art. --- Willem de Kooning. --- Work of art.