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Andy Warhol. Love, Sex, and Desire.

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Andy’s book of desire

A rare and intimate addition to the Warhol canon

Well before Andy Warhol’s rise to the pinnacle of Pop Art, he created and exhibited seductive drawings celebrating male beauty. Andy Warhol Love, Sex, & Desire: Drawings 1950-1962 features over three hundred drawings 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 their form, their erotic qualities, and unbridled sexuality. 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 enigmatic artist.

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 finally brings his project to fruition by gathering his most striking images, published here for the first time in a comprehensive book and chosen by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Edited and featuring an introduction by the Foundation’s Michael Dayton Hermann, and essays by Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik and art critic Drew Zeiba. 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.

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 would become a Warhol trademark. His confident hand illustrates a multitude of colorful characters, yet also reveals much about this enigmatic artist.

The editor

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.

The contributors

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 Unseenamong others.

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.

Andy Warhol.
Love, Sex, and Desire.
Drawings 1950–1962

First printing of 7,500 numbered copies

Michael Dayton Hermann, Drew Zeiba, Blake Gopnik

Hardcover, 28 x 33.7 cm, 3.19 kg, 392 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-7447-1
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German

Relationships

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Relationships

The School of Life

De Botton Alain

A new route to achieving happiness in loving relationships.

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Cover: hardcover
Pages: 120
Published: 01.12.2016
Language: English
Weight: 316g

How to Have Feminist Sex

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How to Have Feminist Sex

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Published: 27.08.2020
Imprint: Penguin
Length: 144 Pages
Dimensions: 210mm x 11mm x 138mm

The Movie Kama Sutra

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The Movie Kama Sutra

69 Sex Positions for Movie Lovers

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Forget high definition or surround sound, this is how to take your enjoyment of film to the next level!

The Movie Kama Sutra offers creative sex positions – including the ‘Potter’s Wheel’ (Ghost), ‘King of the World’ (Titanic) and, for the more sexually experimental, ‘Cable Drop’ (Mission: Impossible) – inspired by the most erotic moments in cinema history.

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69 illustrations
Size: 185 x 135 mm
Published: 03/09/2018

X-Rated

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Adult Movie Posters of the 60's and 70's

This magnificent book is the new, expanded, complete edition of Nourmand and Marsh’s cult bestseller, with text by renowned writer Peter Doggett. The 1960s and ’70s were the Golden Age of the X-rated movie. For the first time, these films were shown in mainstream cinemas to a fashionable, young crowd. The “porno chic” movement around films like Deep Throat (1972), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) and Debbie Does Dallas (1978) gave skin flicks an air of credibility that had never existed before. Johnny Carson and Bob Hope talked about Deep Throat on TV, and respected artists became involved in promotional campaigns for adult films.

Of all film genres, the X-rated movie is possibly the one that lends itself best to the use of posters as a promotional medium. Screaming taglines, provocative titles and scantily clad bodies are all elements that can be used to great advantage in poster form. Even though many of the adult movies of the ‘60s and ‘70s have faded into cinematic history, their posters remain an inspiration for graphic designers. And today they are wonderful, joyful period pieces that evoke the temptations and taboos of a bygone age of suspender belts, stockings and eye-popping, gravity-defying brassieres. To quote Steve Frankfurt’s iconic ad campaign for the soft core masterpiece Emmanuelle, “X was never like this.”

Andy’s book of desire

A rare and intimate addition to the Warhol canon

The editor

The contributors

Andy Warhol.Love, Sex, and Desire.Drawings 1950–1962

Relationships

The School of Life

How to Have Feminist Sex

Flo Perry

The Movie Kama Sutra

X-Rated

Adult Movie Posters of the 60's and 70's

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Andy Warhol.
Love, Sex, and Desire.
Drawings 1950–1962