Andy Warhol

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928, Andy Warhol's early career began in advertising where he worked as a designer and illustrator. In the 1960s, he began exhibiting the iconic pop art work that we now associate with him, and he soon became one of the world's most famous artists. But what was it about him and his work that was revolutionary, and what effect does he continue to have to the present day?

Our guest is Dr Glyn Davis, a Reader in Screen Studies at Edinburgh College of Art. Glyn has researched and written extensively about film and television and has a particular interest in experimental cinema and artists' film and video. He ran a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Andy Warhol in 2014 and 2015 and was co-editor of "Warhol in Ten Takes", published by the BFI. He is currently the project leader of the Cruising the 1970s research project, a pan-European queer history project involving researchers from Germany, Spain, Poland and the UK.

Revolutionaries is produced and recorded at Edinburgh College of Art, and is hosted by Ardie Collins from the Engagement and Communications team. Music is Noahs Stark by krackatoa.