Andy Warhol: Dark Star

He has held curatorial positions at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. About the Author DOUGLAS FOGLE is an independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles.

DOUGLAS FOGLE is an independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles. He has held curatorial positions at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

His early work reveals his fascination with Hollywood stars, everyday household products, disasters, car crashes, and the Kennedy assassination. Andy Warhol embodied many of the paradoxes of postwar America. From soup cans to car crashes, the early work of Andy Warhol is reconsidered in this illustrated collection of essays from a wide variety of scholars, writers, and artists. Illustrated throughout with a wide-ranging series of illustrations of Warhol’s famed and lesser-known works, this collection brings into clearer focus the artist’s personal struggles to make sense of the