Today, fourteen years after his death, Andy Warhol still is everywhere - and more so than ever. His serial works - the soup can pictures, Brillo Boxes or portraits of stars like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, for instance, - seem to have left an indelible mark in our visual memory. Warhol was the first of the pop generation artists to recognize the omnipotence of medial language. He looked for motives in the American consumer world, images whose amazing degree of recognition is based on their having been reproduced and reprinted a million times, and then turned the principle of indefinite repetition into art. His probably most impressive and most important series, Disaster, reveals the dark side of American consumer positivism; in series, the tragedies link to form endless loops, losing their actual message. With representative pictures from his most important series, this book encompasses Andy Warhol´s complete oeuvre. Instructive essays by Peter Gidal and Edward Sanders shed new light on the much discussed artist and his serial works.