Andy Warhol and the Icon of Modern Art — the Campbell’s Soup Can

Andy Warhol and the Icon of Modern Art — the Campbell’s Soup Can

In this lecture, we will explore:

• what consequences followed the change in the status of youth after World War II

• why an art movement fascinated by American mass culture emerged

• what pop culture is and whether American artists of the 1950s–1960s can be called “poets of modernity”

• how Andy Warhol chose consumer society as the central subject of his art