From meer:

CLAMP is pleased to present Andy Warhol, Sex parts, an exhibition of screenprints and photographs from the late 1970s.

In 1977, at the height of the gay liberation movement, and just two weeks following Robert Mapplethorpe’s notorious New York exhibition at The Kitchen of his sexually explicit X portfolio comprised of male subjects and sadomasochistic scenarios, Andy Warhol began photographing his own nudes at the Factory then located on the north end of Union Square. Meant as a radical counterpoint to his commercially driven commissioned portraits, Warhol was not necessarily anticipating the times, but rather sensing them, which “enabled him not only to join the latest trend but to leap to the head of the line” as described by Bob Colacello in The Andy Warhol catalogue raisonné, paintings 1976-1978—volume 5.

Read the full article
Browse the exhibition “Andy Warhol | Sex Parts” at CLAMP.