5 Deaths

by Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga (Photographer), Jeff Koons (Contributor)

When we were making the 5 Deaths paintings, with the car upside down and the people underneath, Andy asked, "Are they still alive?" as if the accident had actually occurred in front of us. —Gerard Malanga~Andy Warhol's 5 Deaths series (in which only two of the car's passengers actually died) is presented here together with a short essay by Malanga and a conversation between Malanga and Jeff Koons about Warhol.

61 pages, Hardcover

First published March 2, 2004

About the author

Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).