Fantasy America

Contemporary artists revisit Warhol's 1985 love letter to America, featuring photographs taken and collected by the artist during his cross-country travels and in-person encounters over the previous decade. The book reflects on travel, beauty, fame, politics, technology, and the American Dream. The artists, all based in New York, contribute their own art to challenge perceptions of what America is and what it can become.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 104 pages
\n Publication date: 13 July 2021
\n Publisher: Andy Warhol Museum
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Contemporary artists revisit Warhol's 1985 love letter to America

Originally published in 1985, Warhol's America features photographs both taken and collected by the artist during his cross-country travels and in-person encounters over the previous decade. The book, an idiosyncratic love letter to America, finds Warhol reflecting on everything from travel, beauty, and fame to politics, technology, and the American Dream. Three decades later, Fantasy America invites artists Nona Faustine, Kambui Olujimi, Pacifico Silano, Naama Tsabar, and Chloe Wise to revisit this seminal publication and contribute their own art. All New York-based, they, like Warhol, are cross-disciplinary artists drawn to repetition, seriality, and image appropriation in their work.

Against the backdrop of nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder, the Black Lives Matter movement, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the presidential election, these essays and artworks probe and challenge our perceptions of what America is and what it can become.

\n Weight: 460g\n
Dimension: 148 x 226 x 15 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781735940205\n \n