Andy Warhol (1928–1987) is one of the most influential 20th-century artists whose impact is still with us today. With his technique of serial silkscreen printing in the 1960s he turned the work of art into the perfect mass product, opening-as author and protagonist-the art world to celebrity culture and relativizing the border between high art and mass art as no other artist has done. In addition to his reproductions of the star system in silkscreen prints, photographs, and fi lms,
Warhol consistently staged his own person as a living art work.