If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend by Alison Pace

An early painting depicted a bottle of Coca-Cola, rendered in a painterly, expressionistic manner.

A second …īeginning in the 1950s, Warhol began to experiment with presenting mass-produced advertising images as artwork. He attended the Carnegie Technical Institute and, in 1949, moved to New York to pursue work as a commercial artist.īeginning in the 1950s, Warhol began to experiment with presenting mass-produced advertising images as artwork. The fourth son of working-class Slovak immigrants, Warhol (born Andrew Warhola) grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was lauded as a mirror of contemporary American culture, in which, he predicted, everyone would experience (or want to experience), “15 minutes of fame,” to use a phrase he coined.

Using reproductions of common, commercially available images from advertising and the celebrity press, Warhol presented art as one commodity among many, an act filled with equal parts indifferent boredom, ingenious marketing, and celebration. Warhol’s innovations, which have now become familiar artistic techniques, confounded traditional notions of what an artist did (Warhol outsourced much of his work to assistants) and what artistic subject matter could be. Her favorite books, music, and TV shows change constantly though there will always be a special place in her heart for Willie Nelson, Cake, Wuthering Heights and Will & Grace her favorite movies are When Harry Met Sally, Bullets Over Broadway, and Best In Show her favorite movie line is from Rushmore when Luke Wilson says, 'These are my O.R.Quite possibly the most influential artist since Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol revolutionized modern art, radically altering the relationship of art to notions of authorship and commodity, and blurring the boundaries between performance, photography, painting, and sculpture. Her favorite city other than New York is Rome. Her essays have appeared in several anthologies including It's a Wonderful Lie: The Truth About Life in Your Twenties, Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, and Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit.Īlison lives in New York City where she teaches creative writing and is at work on another book. Alison Pace is the author of five novels: If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend, Pug Hill, Through Thick and Thin, City Dog, and A Pug's Tale.

If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend by Alison Pace