Warhol (Basic Art Series 2.0) Hardcover by Klaus Honnef ($15)
More than 30 years after his death, Andy Warhol’s influence can still be seen and felt throughout popular culture. Easily one of, if not the, most important artist of the pop art movement, Warhol completely overhauled the traditional understanding of art via everyday cultural references and touchpoints. From soup cans and soda bottles to celebrity stagings and silk-screen paintings, nobody came close to bringing the world of pop art to life as he did.
In the book Warhol, author Klaus Honnef celebrates that life through an extensive exploration of Warhol’s art and history. Featuring 96 pages of more than 100 quality colored images and illustrations of Warhol’s prints, paintings, sculptures, advertisements, comic strips, and more that inspired him, the book does a terrific job at offering a detailed, chronological look inside Warhol’s life and work throughout the years, making sure to not just cover the art, but the cultural and historical importance of said art, as well as the artist behind (and often times in front of) it.