Andy Warhol first award winning graphic design CBS lp

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The Nation's Nightmare
CBS Radio
"ANDY WARHOL WINS HIS FIRST AWARD.
He won the award from the Art Diretctors Club for graphics done for a CBS radio program called The Nation's Nightmare about narcotics and crime"
a CBS radio program about drugs and crime called The Nation's Nightmare. Although Warhol won his award in 1952, the radio program was actually broadcast during the summer of 1951. It consisted of a series of six broadcasts, two of which were released on a album featuring two drawings by Warhol on the front cover - one of a junkie shooting up and another of two men embroiled in a fight. The blurb on the cover promised "a report of crime in America in 1951 - documented with tape recordings from back rooms and front offices of the underworld."3 Lou Dorfsman was the creative director of CBS at the time. Dorfsman admired Warhol's commercial illustrations but wasn't as enthusiastic about some of his later pop paintings.
Lou Dorfsman:
"... radio was the big business of CBS then, television was the step-child growing up... and you could see that one was going to take over, there was no question about that, so we wanted to keep [radio] alive and vital... Andy Warhol had the visual impact that I wanted for such a subject. There's a gritty quality about the style... [Ben] Shahn brought the same thing to it; that's where I cast Andy in that role... I'd say... what about a guy shooting up; here's the layout I'm doing and I don't want to restrict you... I just explained to him what the program was all about... and left it to him... A big difference between an artist and a graphic designer... is that the artist works in quiet desperation all by himself and advertising is a big collaboration... Silkscreening Monroe twelve different ways and different color breakdowns is fine - it's a graphic design schtick... to me that's graphic design, I could do that. Would I have thought of doing twelve Monroes? I don't think so. I wouldn't have thought of it as a great accomplishment but they're very gorgeous women..."4


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