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KAPLANのTOEFL Listening Practice CD-ROM



CD1 Lecture 18 (Campus Life & Popular Culture)

Listen to a lecture in a museum give a talk an American artist, Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol, known chiefly as a painter, was a leader of the pop art movement of the 1960s.

chiefly 主に

Working in a collective known as “The Factory”, he used the process of silkscreening to reproduce recognized American cultural images and icons, such as soap-pad boxes and celebrity photographs.

collective 集団、集合体、団体


This mechanical process made the point that the painted image was mundane and the artist's detached.

make a point 主張の正しさを力説する
mundane現世の、世俗の、平凡な、ありきたりの
detached独立された　別離した

Warhol is also known for as films, such as “Chelsea Girls” 1966, and “Blue Movie” 1969.

Some of his movies are incredibly long more than 24 hours.

incredibly 途方もないほど

In 1966, New York City, Warhol worked with The Factory, in a rock band, the “Velvet Underground” to produce a multimedia events called “Andy Warhol Up Tight”.

He produced the Velvet Underground’s first album in 1967, and took part in the “Exploding Plastic Inevitable”.

take part in ～に参加する

A 12 person team that produces multimedia events combining film, photographs, music, lights, and dance.

His main contributions to modern American art are his invention of the artist as an impersonal agent and his role as a catalyst for many other artists.

impersonal 非人的
catalyst　きゃタリスト　（触媒的な）要因となる人

After he was shot nearly killed in 1968, Warhol was less active. He died in 1987