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Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol's Queer Ecologies

Name: Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol's Queer Ecologies
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520383579
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Contributors:

Anthony E. Grudin

Publisher:

University of California Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Art

Book Subcategory:

Artists, Architects, Photographers, History, American

Book Topic:

Contemporary (1945- )

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Release Date:

2022-10-25

ISBN 13:

9780520383579

Weight:

1.68 lbs

Size:

10.20 x 7.20 x 0.70 inches

Pages:

232

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A bold, compelling, and original study of nonhuman life in Warhol.

Like a Little Dog examines a dimension of Andy Warhol that has never received critical attention: his lifelong personal and artistic interest in nonhuman life. With this book, Anthony E. Grudin offers an engaging new overview of the iconic artist through the lens of animal and plant studies, showing that Warhol and his collaborators wondered over the same questions that absorb these fields: What qualities do humans share with other life forms? How might the vulnerability of life and the unpredictability of desire link them together? Why has the human/animal/plant hierarchy been so rigidly, violently enforced?

Nonhuman life impassioned every area of Warhol's practice, beginning with his juvenilia and an unusually close creative collaboration with his mother, Julia Warhola. The pair codeveloped a transgressive animality that permeated Warhol's prolific career, from his commercial illustration and erotica to his writing and, of course, his painting, installation, photography, and film. Grudin shows that Warhol disputed the traditional claim that culture and creativity distinguish the human from the merely animal and vegetal, instead exploring the possibility of art as an earthy and organic force, imbued with appetite and desire at every node. Ultimately, by arguing that nonhuman life is central to Warhol's work in ways that mirror and anticipate influential texts by Toni Morrison and Ocean Vuong, Like a Little Dog opens an entirely unexplored field in Warhol scholarship.

About the Author
Anthony E. Grudin, author of Warhol's Working Class: Pop Art and Egalitarianism, is a mental health counselor and art historian who has taught at University of Vermont, California College of the Arts, and University of California, Berkeley.

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