#warholbythebook

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Loved visiting the Warhol: By The Book exhibit at @BlantonMuseum today. His career & work on SO MANY books was astounding & truly amazing to see firsthand. #WarholByTheBook

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Day 24 #365daysofgratitude Grateful for a city full of never ending things to see and do! I heart #austin #warholbythebook

[lurnos]

Just had to stop by the Blanton one last time before break | Andy Warhol's portrait of Gertrude Stein | 12.9.16 | (at The Blanton Museum of Art)

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Warhol screen tests (1966) #explodingplasticinevitable #warhol #ginsberg #dali #warholbythebook #blantonmuseum (at The Blanton Museum of Art)

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Screentest at #bscene. #andywarhol #warholbythebook @atx

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#WarholBytheBook introduces museum visitors to Andy Warhol the illustrator.  

He's known for his screen prints, soup cans and his fascination with celebrity.

But now, Pittsburghers will get to know another, lesser-known facet of Andy Warhol: the illustrator.

On display through Jan. 10 on the second floor of the Andy Warhol Museum on Pittsburgh's North Shore, "Warhol By the Book" is the first U.S. exhibition that concentrates on Warhol's book-related work.The exhibit, curated by the Warhol’s chief archivist, Matt Wrbican, presents Warhol's work chronologically, from early student illustrations in the late 1940s through his career in the 1980s.

"The show really covers how active he was in the first decade of his career," said Jessica Beck, assistant curator of art, and "cultivates a side that people didn't know much about."

With more than 400 objects, such as books, drawings and screen prints, relating to more than 80 book titles, including original drawings and unfinished projects, "Warhol By the Book" provides an expansive overview of Warhol's work on books.

Read the full feature from Beaver County Times.

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Warhol By the Book opens October 10 at The Warhol in Pittsburgh.

Book Smart

A revelatory exhibition features a little-known but widely influential chapter of Andy Warhol’s life: redefining the book.

By Barbara Klein for Carnegie Magazine

During his pre-Pop days, Andy Warhol would throw coloring parties at his favorite Upper East Side haunt, Serendipity 3. Friends and strangers alike would help him add color to drawings he made for his self-published books—a low-tech version of today’s crowdsourcing campaigns—while downing the shop’s signature “frrrozen hot chocolate.”

Well before the interconnected world of the 21st century, books—mass produced and relatively inexpensive—reached people in ways paintings on a gallery wall could not. And as far as Warhol was concerned, that made it a medium well worth exploring.

Despite rumors to the contrary, Warhol was an avid reader whose literary interests ranged from movie star and Princess Diana biographies to cookbooks, astronomy, plastic surgery, and antiques. A photograph taken in his Montauk, New York, home in the 1970s shows his books arranged spine-in on the shelves.

Throughout his life and work, books, in one form or another and at one time or another, provided the artist with information, inspiration, and income, says Matt Wrbican, chief archivist at The Andy Warhol Museum.

“Publishing was huge during his lifetime,” says Wrbican. “And creating books was vital to his career.”

The first exhibition in the United States to crack the spine on this chapter of the artist’s career opens October 10 at The Warhol and runs through January 10, 2016. Curated by Wrbican, Warhol By the Book features some 300 objects—paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, works never fully realized, and a sampling of books from Warhol’s own eclectic library, including a first edition of the Atkins Diet and a volume on poodles.

Read the full story.