Patrick de Haas
Cahier N° 21 : Andy Warhol
Author(s) Patrick de Haas
Year 2005
Language(s) English, French
Pages 64 pages
Publisher Paris Expérimental
Description
While Andy Warhol is a name that has achieved far more than 15 minutes of fame, certain aspects of his work, particularly his cinema, remain poorly understood.
Warhol's films nevertheless profoundly disrupted a certain type of knowledge and behavior towards cinema. But the innovative and radical elements of Warhol's films (long-duration fixed shots, "real time", rawness of sexual representations...) can only be fully understood if they are approached in relation to the overall attitude that generates the entirety of the artist's activity: his painting as well as his films. Thus, questions of dandyism, the assertion of indifference, the attraction to surface, the voyeuristic impulse, are some of the "keys" that allow for a more precise analysis of the play with stardom, the fascination with Hollywood, the singularity of editing, and the strange relationships maintained with the machine and language.
Painting and cinema are therefore studied here in their common mental context. And the historical position of Warhol's films is illuminated by highlighting the connections with the films and thoughts of Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Léger...