| No artist of the second half of
the 20th century was more famous-or, perhaps in the end, more
famously misunderstood-than Andy Warhol. At once the most accessible
and enigmatic, straightforward and elusive, naive and savagely
ironic artist of his time, he was the Wizard of Icons and the
mercurial Merlin of a mass-media age.
American Masters' Andy Warhol: A
Documentary Film is a definitive film portrait of an artist
whose signature works are among the most recognized and sought-after
works of art ever created. The two-part, four-hour film airs
Wednesday-Thursday, September 20-21, at 9:00 p.m.
The documentary is the first to make
full use of the extensive archives of the Andy Warhol Museum in
Pittsburgh and the first to explore the full range of Warhol's
astonishing career. Included are interviews with art dealer Irving
Blum, curator Donna De Salvo, art critic Dave Hickey, writer Stephen
Koch, artist Jeff Koons, former manager Paul Morrissey,
writer/editor George Plimpton, art historian John Richardson and
Andy Warhol's brother, John Warhola. The film is narrated by artist
and musician Laurie Anderson and features artist Jeff Koons as the
voice of Andy Warhol.
Andy Warhol is a highlight of the 20th-anniversary season of
American Masters, a five-time winner of the Emmy Award
for Outstanding Primetime Non-Fiction Series and a recent recipient
of its seventh Peabody Award.
"Andy Warhol is a complex,
contradictory artist, and a great subject to explore," says Susan
Lacy, creator and executive producer of American Masters.
"His impact on shaping our concepts about art in the 20th century is
enormous. The dominance of his influence-his images, his
sensibility, his ideas-is practically indescribable."
During extensive research, director
Ric Burns was astounded by the material he and his colleagues were
able to gain access to, including black-and-white footage of Warhol
working in his studio on the Disaster Series in 1962, 8mm
behind-the-scenes footage of The Factory, a rare 1965 audio
interview with Warhol, and unpublished photographs of Warhol's
family.
"Warhol was the most amazing
archaeologist of our culture that has ever lived," says Burns, the
award-winning director of New York: A Documentary Film. "In
the course of the incredible, Horatio Alger arc of his life story,
he challenged every conventional idea of what a work of art can be,
in half a dozen different media-from painting and sculpture to film
and television to music, performance art and beyond. No 20th-century
artist had a greater impact on the way we see the world around us.
None remains more contemporary and relevant." |
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Michigan Theater
Ann Arbor, MI
9/12 @ 7:15 pm
michtheater.org
Endless Mountains Theater
Scranton,
Pennsylvania
9/15 @ 7:30 pm (part 1)
9/16 @ 5:00 pm (part 2)
www.endlessmountainstheatre.com
Emerging Cinemas at the Market Arcade
Buffalo, NY
9/13 @ 6:00 pm
www.emergingpictures.com/buffalo.htm
Galaxy Cinema
Cary, NC
9/111 & 12 @ 7:15 pm
http://www.mygalaxycinema.com/
Cinema Paradiso
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
9/16 @ 7:00 pm
www.cinemaparadiso.org
Tropic Cinema
Key West, FL
9/11 @ 7:00pm
keywestfilm.org
Stage West at the Duncan Theater
Lake Worth, FL
9/15 @ 6:00 pm
www.pbcc.edu/arts/duncan |
Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art
Memphis, TN
9/10 @ 2:00 pm
www.brooksmuseum.org
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
(at The
University of
Nebraska-Lincoln)
Lincoln,
Nebraska
9/14 @ 7:00 pm
www.theross.org
Kabuki 8 Cinema
San Francisco, CA
9/14 (time TBA) Imperial Theater
Augusta, GA
9/16 @7:30 pm
www.imperialtheatre.com
Circle Cinema
Tulsa,
Oklahoma
9/10 @ 2:00 pm
www.circlecinema.com State Theater
Uniontown, PA
9/14 @ 7:00 pm
www.statetheatre.info
Theater N
Wilmington,
Delaware
9/12 @ 6:30 pm
www.theaterN.org |
