Andy Warhol. Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962
Hardcover, 11 x 13.3 in., 7.03 lb, 392 pages
US$ 100
Before Andy Warhol’s rise to the peak of Pop Art, he created seductive drawings celebrating male beauty. His plan to publish these drawings in a book has now been realized. This volume has over 300 of Warhol’s rarely seen, risqué images that highlight the artist’s fascination with the male form, droll humor, and ironic detachment.
Customer reviews (18)
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.
Andy Warhol. Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962
Hardcover, 11 x 13.3 in., 7.03 lb, 392 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-7447-1
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
Customer reviews (18)
pink power
Libor, October 28, 2021
Luxury book with surprising drawings. The drawings are perfectly reproduced, they look great in a large format. Ingeniously simple and yet so impressive and sensual. It is a great pleasure to view this book.
The best publication
Giorgio, October 28, 2021
No other publication gives you that heart thumping full of excitement feeling when you recieve an oversized,, beautifully printed Taschen book.
Fantastic Book
Line, October 28, 2021
Again TASCHEN have outdone themselves in offering a fantastic book! I have it as a present to a man who already "has everything". He was so happy!
Lovely book
Frank Moore, October 27, 2021
Lovely book and a great representation of the lesser known work of this well known artist.
Great inspiration
Marta, October 27, 2021
Beautifully released album, one of the best in my opinion. Great inspiration. I definitely recommend it to all Warhol funs and not only :)
Wonderful Collection
Rod, October 27, 2021
Great collection of often unseen drawings giving a unique insight into the often private world of Andy Warhol.
Warhol
Alexander, October 27, 2021
Stunning presentation and quality.
Fabulous collection of unseen erotic drawings
Fabulous collection of unseen erotic drawings
Wonderful
Corrado, October 27, 2021
It makes me dream on every page
Warhol fan must!
Donald, October 27, 2021
Great book detailing Warhols drawings. A must have for any Warhol fan!
A great addition
Timothy R, October 27, 2021
This is a well made, solid edition by TASCHEN, showcasing work by the artist, much of which I have not seen before. This volume adds another glimpse into the complex art scene of New York City. His drawings have been reproduced with care.