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Between the cinema and the serigraphy: toward a sociological biography of Andy Warhol

Abstract

We seek in this article to reconstruct a brief sociological biography of Andy Warhol, pop art icon. Our objective is to identify in his trajectory a performative dimension of objectivation as subject in the field of the North American artist. Warhol transformed an original procedure - silkscreen - into a work of art. If, on the one hand, Andy found a specific way of stylizing photographs, on the other he found a way to legitimize the reproducibility of works of art for market purposes, that is, he transformed his works of art into mass-produced goods. Nevertheless, Warhol in his cinematographic works developed a perspective of genre from its serigraph aesthetic that we are interested to emphasize.

Andy Warhol; World of Art; Sociology of Art; Arthur C. Danto; Underground Cinema

Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315, 05508-010, São Paulo - SP, Brasil - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
E-mail: temposoc@edu.usp.br