Andy Warhol 4219-SD072
The course explores Andy Warhol’s many connections to queer culture. We will watch some of Warhol’s films, analyze his art works and his personal essays, read his major biographers, and examine a range of criticism pinpointing the importance of sexuality and gender roles to his life and his art. To call on Douglas Crimp’s formulation of his interest in Warhol, the goal is not so much to see Warhol as an exemplary homosexual but rather to ask what it meant to be ‘queer’ before ‘gay’.
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
Students are familiar with a range of Andy Warhol's visual works, including films, and major facts in his biography.
Students are acquainted with a range of interpretations of Andy Warhol's work, including in symbolic, economic, and queer contexts.
Skills:
Students can analyze visual art works, including films.
Students can read and discuss critical commentary on Warhol's art and its lasting significance.
Competences:
Students can take part in an academic discussion, presenting their views and commenting the views of others.
Assessment criteria
Class participation (including written and oral responses). Final test. Term paper.
Bibliography
Selected bibliography:
Angell, Callie. Andy Warhol Screen Tests. The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne
Bockris, Victor. The Life and Death of Andy Warhol.
Crimp, Douglas. “Our Kind of Movie”: The Films of Andy Warhol
_____. “Getting the Warhol We Deserve. Cultural Studies and Queer Culture.”
Doyle, Jennifer, Jonathan Flatley, José Esteban Muñoz, eds. Pop Out: Queer Warhol.
Koestenbaum, Wayne. Andy Warhol.
Solanas, Valerie. “SCUM Manifesto”
Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and Back Again.
______ and Pat Hackett. POPism.
______. The Andy Warhol Diaries, ed. By Pat Hackett
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