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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 225. Chapters: Andy Warhol, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Jeff Koons, Edward Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Serra, Louise Bourgeois, List of works by Frank Weston Benson, Childe Hassam, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Faile (artist collective), Mary Cassatt, Sol LeWitt, Winslow Homer, Cy Twombly, Bruce Nauman, James Siena, Kara Walker, Todros Geller, Chuck Close, John Baldessari, David Wojnarowicz, Joseph Nechvatal, Mark Tobey, Lowell Blair Nesbitt, Romare Bearden, Donald Judd, John French Sloan, Lionel Barrymore, Tom Wesselmann, Beauford Delaney, Rockwell Kent, Ben Shahn, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Josef Albers, Blanche Lazzell, Robert Motherwell, Thomas Hart Benton (painter), Hedda Sterne, Reginald Marsh (artist), Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Jim Evans (artist), Agnes Martin, Kenneth Noland, Raymond Pettibon, Arman, Stephen De Staebler, Warrington Colescott, Keith Haring, Grant Wood, Dox Thrash, George Bellows, Self Help Graphics & Art, Currier and Ives, Jack Boynton, Charles James Martin (artist), Kenneth E. Tyler. Excerpt: Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist. Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He...