Art History Speaks: Andy Warhol's Pleasure with Food - a curator talk with Elizabeth Athens

Описание: Dr. Elizabeth Athens, Assistant Curator of American Art at the Worcester Art Museum, expounds on the influences and art of icon Andy Warhol as she examines the melding of the sensory language of advertising with fine art in the Pop art movement.

Pop icon Andy Warhol's depictions of commercial foodstuffs--his paintings of Campbell's soup cans, for example--appear to be slick reworkings of American commodity culture. Nonetheless, the artist was deeply invested in his subjects, and he explained to one interviewer that Campbell's soup was his favorite lunch.

This fascinating illustrated talk examines Warhol's visual representations of food not as glib or ironic, but rather as an expression of his personal pleasure with food.

Dr. Elizabeth Athens is the Assistant Curator of American Art at the Worcester Art Museum and held positions with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Yale Center for British Art previously. Athens received her MA from Williams College and PhD from Yale University.

Originally recorded the evening of Tuesday, October 11, 2016 in the Howard E. Wooden Lecture Hall at the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas.

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