As the title, Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol insinuates, the visitors were encouraged to reflect upon Warhol’s personal involvement with his art and his subject-matter. The intention with this exhibition was to exceed well-rehearsed clichés about Andy Warhol and rather emphasise the ambition, subjectivity and consciousness of Andy as a person. By placing the artist in the centre, not only as an icon and an ‘artist in third person’, one could get to know a person with extreme commitment to the times in which he lived.

As a guide to this adventure the museum published, together with Skira, this extended catalogue with important articles by prominent scholars and writers.

Introduction by Gunnar B. Kvaran and articles by Graham Bader, Rachel Baum, Judith Benhamou-Huet, Glenn O’Brien, David Carrier, Jane Daggett Dillenberger, Steven Watson, Aram Saroyan, Svein Inge Sæther and an interview with Gerard Malanga.

SKIRA, 2008.
Exhibition catalogue, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, 2008.

An essay titled “Warhol’s TV Diaries”.

http://afmuseet.no/en/utstillinger/2008/andy-warhol-by-andy-warhol (en)