This presentation channels the unlikely wisdom of Andy Warhol to address day-to-day challenges from dealing with rejection to talking about money, from acknowledging cosmetic flaws to promoting yourself at work. Warhol was fascinated by everyday life, both his own and that of other people ranging from celebrities and socialites to supermarket shoppers and workers in a handbag factory. In both words and photographs, he offered observations on art, sex, celebrity, love, money, drag, drugs, and parties, among other subjects. This lecture (and the book project from which it is drawn) recharge the artist’s observations of the 1970s and 80s for use today, nearly a half-century later. It demonstrates how Warhol’s attention to daily life sparks possibilities for us to rethink our own.
Organised by Professor Jo Applin FBA, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art and Director of the Centre for the Art of the Americas
Speakers
龱ѱ is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History and Director of American Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art and co-author, with Catherine Lord, of Art and Queer Culture. His most recent book, Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered is a study of a Brooklyn tailor and slipper-maker who, against all odds, achieved international recognition as a self-taught painter in the 1940s. Meyer is currently at work on Andy Warhol’s Guide to Everyday Life.
