A Gold Book, Georgie Duffee; Andy Warhol

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Georgie Duffee; Andy Warhol, A Gold Book
Georgie Duffee; Andy Warhol, A Gold Book
Andy Warhol
A Gold Book
1957
Andy Warhol
1928–1987
A Gold Book, 1957
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: hand coloring; offset lithograph
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 37 x 29.5 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 14 9/16 x 11 5/8 in
Credit line: Anonymous gift
Accession number: 2006.0299
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: “Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture and the 1980s,” Aug-2009, Susan Earle This early work by Warhol shows another way that Warhol used photography. Warhol’s cover of A Gold Book shows an image of James Dean, the famous actor, celebrity, and cult figure who had just died at a young age. Warhol’s drawing of Dean is adapted from a well-known photograph of the actor in his role in the movie Rebel Without a Cause. As he would soon do in his paintings of Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities, Warhol took an existing media photo and adapted it, transferring the image from one medium to another and altering it in the process, in this case raising Dean’s right foot so that it disappears, and giving him taller hair.