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“IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY will be world famous for 15 minutes.”

The Campbell’s Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15 minutes he predicted for everyone else. His very name is synonymous with the 1960s American art movement known as Pop.

But Warhol’s oeuvre was the sum of many parts. He not only produced iconic art that blended high and popular culture; he also made controversial films, starring his entourage of the beautiful and outrageous; he launched Interview, a slick magazine that continues to sell today; and he reveled in leading the vanguard of New York’s hipster lifestyle. The Factory, Warhol’s studio and den of social happenings, was the place to be.

Who would have predicted that this eccentric boy, the Pittsburgh-bred son of Eastern European immigrants, would catapult himself into media superstardom? Warhol’s rise, from poverty to wealth, from obscurity to status as a Pop icon, is an absorbing tale—one in which the American dream of fame and fortune is played out in all of its success and its excess. No artist of the late 20th century took the pulse of his time—and ours—better than Andy Warhol.

Praise for Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist:

“This outstanding, well-researched biography is fascinating reading.”—School Library Journal, Starred

“Readers will see not just the man but also the paintings anew.”—The Bulletin, Starred

“An exceptional biography that reveals the humanity behind the myth.”—Booklist, Starred

A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book

An ALA Notable Book


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Pop iconography
This is a quick and enlightening biography of America's greatest pop artist, Andy Warhol. The book outlines his life, his art, and how Andy Warhol became an American icon. It not only provides a short life-sketch (his mother was his greatest encouragement), but also describes how Warhol became inseparable from American Pop Art (his application of art into media, extending the boundaries of art), his contribution to American culture (advertising, design, books, films, TV production and fashion), and his rise as an American icon (everybody wanted to be in Andy Warhol's company).

The book also contains a Warhol timeline, a list of Warhol's films and books, a glossary of art terms, notes on quotes and references, and sources of research material on Warhol, making it an interesting mini-compendium on the artist. Both art lovers and laymen will find this book enlightening.

As readable as they get
An exceptionally well-organized biography. At 138 pages, generally not that detailed but overall thorough in what it does present. I learned more about Andy's youth here than I had elsewhere. Having taken a long time to appreciate how much my parents did for me, I was pleased to see just how much Andrey and Julia (and his brothers) sacrificed for Andy.

If Andy was famous for being non-judgmental at the Factory, perhaps we can see the seeds of that in how accepting Andrej, Julia and his brothers were of unusual Andy. The distance from the seemingly ordinary Andrej and Julia to their extraordinary son seemed not that great.

Although the Velvet Underground merited a few pages, I was disappointed that Lou Reed seemed to only be covered by one sentence. But that's a small nit compared to how well Andy is presented. For the most part Andy's inner world is not revealed, but it seems no one has done that (not even Andy). As much as is written about Andy, a fascinating mystery remains and it is a big mystery. Perhaps I haven't learned from Andy how to acceptsurfaces. What I appreciate about this biography is that it blocks out his life so well.

The selection of his art in the middle of this book seems a good one. As an introduction to his art and to his life, this book seems a winner. The book closes with a good summary of important dates about Andy from 1926 to 2003, a list of selected films, a list of his books (which shoudln't be underestimated, for example"Popism" and "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol"), a glossary, notes, and an index. A lot of care has gone into constructing this biography.

After reading this biography, a good next step would be "365 Takes" from the Andy Warhol Museum. Warhol was an exceptional genius, which people are still coming to realize. We're fortunate in getting to know him better to have high quality help like this book.

Prince of Pop Prints!
Greeneberg and Jordan are well-known for their lively biographies of artists. Prince of Pop is no exception. The cover prints of Warhol in full wig mania are sitmulating and invite the reader in. It is highly accessible and easy to read but not dumbed down. Their presentation takes the reader through a well-researched, chronological examination of his life in a balanced and honest way. There is much explanation of his inspiration and actual work process to interest the young artist. For non-artists there is a useful glossary of people and terms in the back. The authors also do a good job of explaining his personal dilemma between choosing a lucrative commercial art career and becoming a "great" artist. One of the best moments in the book shows how an art consultant gave him the Campbell soup can idea. Further insight into his unusual philosophies of art and life is revealed through the many quotes by Warhol, his critics, family and friends heading each chapter. Although geared for teens, the book does not avoid discussion of his decadent, wild social life nor his homosexuality. This is handled in a sensitive, but matter-of-fact way. It's just included as part of the wider context of his work in art, films and celebrity manufacturing. A really hip, fun biography!

Highly recommended reading
While Andy Warhol: Prince Of Pop was co-authored by Jan Greeneberg and Sandra Jordan with teens in mind, it will also hold a dual interest for adult readers seeking a particularly lively, well detailed introduction to the life and works of ground breaking and innovative American artist Andy Warhol. There are selections of representative art but the strength of Andy Warhol: Prince Of Pop lies in its survey of his controversies, his New York hipster lifestyle, his influences, and his trend-setting achievements. Highly recommended reading, Andy Warhol: Prince Of Pop is so much more accessible than similar treatises which assume prior familiarity with Warhol's art.

Engaging biography of an influential artist
It's not every day that one reads a biography so insightful and compelling that one wants to go learn more about the subject. I first encountered ANDY WARHOL: PRINCE OF POP as an excerpt in RUSH HOUR: Volume Two - Bad Boys. The excerpt, covering the central controversial period of Warhol's celebrity in the 1960s, excited me so much that I knew I had to read more.

The rest of the biography does not disappoint. Organized in a linear narrative, the book covers Warhol's life, from his early childhood as the sickly child of Eastern European immigrants to his death at the age of 58 of complications after routine surgery. It organizes each period into thematic chapters filled with interesting anecdotes, pithy Warhol aphorisms, and memories from people who were there at the time.

Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan's extensive knowledge of the subject and in-depth research into Warhol's life make this book a treasure. It includes a timeline, a glossary of unfamiliar art terms, an extensive bibliography of sources, and is heavily illustrated with some of Warhol's most famous works. While intended as a biography for young adults, this book makes Warhol's life, work, and the art of his age accessible in a way that will appeal to readers of all ages.

One of the strongest aspects of the book is the authors' understanding and clear explanations of many of the art movements of the twentieth century. Also invaluable is the authors' illumination of the many processes Warhol used to produce his art, including painting, silk-screening, and experimental film.

It is difficult for biographers to avoid the trap of finding greatness in the origins of their subjects. This book contains many stories about the Warhol being drawn to art at an early age. However, the authors' careful plotting of the transformation of a shy and painfully awkward boy into the international celebrity also suggests that one of Andy's greatest creations was his own image as an artist.

ANDY WARHOL: PRINCE OF POP does not shy away from the racy subject matter of Warhol's experimental films or the raucous entourage he incorporated into his work in the 1960s. It also deals extensively, though not explicitly, with Warhol's homosexuality.

The work of Andy Warhol is so influential that even readers who do not know anything about him will probably recognize his famous paintings of Campbell soup cans, or his celebrity portraits silk-screened onto brightly colored backgrounds. Greenberg and Jordan's book is engaging and thought-provoking. It will undoubtedly set the standard for young adult biographies for years to come.

--- Reviewed by Sarah A. Wood
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Now available after 20 years--Andy Warhol's only novel. Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, referred to as "pornography" in "The New York Times Book Review's" original review and as "a work of genius" by "Newsweek", "a: A Novel" is the perfect literary manifestation of Warhol's sensibility. "Like "Finnegan's Wake", it remakes the language".--"The New Yorker" . ... Read more

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Unreadable
This book and Bob Dylan's Tarantula are one in the same, unreadable. Let's face it, you have to be a complete Andy Warhol obsessed freak to make it through this book. If you have finished the book I'd be curious to know what you've gained.

If you took the name Andy Warhol off this book it would never even see the light of day. I'm sure Andy was aware of this and that's the reason why he did it. He was caught up in that type of celebrity status and probably got a kick out of putting one on us. In that sense I tip my hat to him.

In with the in crowd
But how far in do you want to be?

If you ever had a fantasy of hanging out at The Factory for a day, reading this may make you wish instead you were trapped watching reruns of Monday Night Football for 24 hours.

Well, maybe it's not that bad. I was able to read attentively for 150 pages before I started browsing which became little more than page-turning for the last 100 pages. Perhaps I'll go back and see if it grows on me.

I guess you had to be there, but I'm glad I wasn't. It seemed like it was horrifically boring. Small talk rarely gets this small. Some mention of sex, some of drugs, some perverse humor hardly covers the emptiness.

"12 hours of Ondine ... a novel?" Not for me. If I had to pick, I've have featured the more coherent Sugar Plum Fairy (SPF, present in the 2nd half of the book) not Ondine. But unless I were doing a doctoral dissertation on Warhol's Factory,l I would have avoided "a". Now that I have it and want to make the best of it, there is, admittedly, something absorbing for a while in the rantings.

The glossary by Victor Bockris provides some help about who was who and what seemed particularly important. You can probably start in on any page without much loss.

Another such experiment by someone of taping with a different cast of characters would be welcome. Based on "a", there does seem to be a value in doing a "novel" in this way: a lot depends of who and when you tape. Like novels, "a"'s conversations seem contrived, just contrived by a lot more people than a single novelist and that could be good. I wouldn't want to read a day's worth of tapes of the Osmond Family or of the board of General Motors, but there's got to be a group whose taping would lead to a better "novel" than "a".

Consider reading "a" if you are curious enough about the Warhol scene or about what a novel by tape recorder would be like or are just feeling whacked out enough.

Sugar Plum Fairy: "Making silkscreens and photographs and, do you consider that work? I mean does he get up in the morning and say, 'Mom, I have to get down to the office...'"

Best Read with Strobe Light and Pop Rocks
My favorite A book, though I am biased when it comes to the Warhola's. (hello mark:) The only book as far (as I am concerned) that truly has A's hand in it.Give all other credit to Bob Collacello(sp), as he is the true writer of most. Love to you both..

A transcript, an artwork, not a novel. Great entertainment.
I first read this book when I was 18. Being enormously taken with it, I never returned my copy (an original hardback in paperback size with the big "A" on the front) to the university library. I ended up paying the library $272 in back dues before the university would release my diploma. It was worth every cent.

To create "A," Warhol followed and tape-recorded one Factory personality, Ondine, for 24 hours. Ondine was reportedly high on amphetamines at the time, so it was a full 24 hours involving no sleep. (Ondine was also a homosexual. He speaks graphically about homosexual sex often in "A" - that is why it was branded as pornographic in its day.) "A" is simply the transcription of those 24 hours worth of audio tape. Nothing more, nothing less. The women who were hired to transcribe the tapes reportedly got bored with their jobs and started typing the material in different layouts and formats. This formatting was left in the original book.

"A" is a collaborative work (Warhol, Ondine, Ondine's associates, the typists). It's pre-post-modern, if you will. And it is a splendid artifact from its time. It shouldn't be described or experienced in the context of literature and novels. It is an art piece, like any of Warhol's films. One does not compare the films "Empire State Building" or "Sleep" with "Sleepless in Seattle."

If you like being a fly on the wall, "A" will please you. It's like being there. Watch for references to the introduction of Pop Tarts and the release of the first James Bond flick. If you appreciate pop art and post-modernism, you'll get even more out of the book.

If you're a Warhol/Factory officianado (like me), it's great fun trying to decipher the real identities of the codenamed characters. Watch the film, "I Shot Andy Warhol" after reading "A." Much of the film's dialogue and situations could easily have been culled from the book.

"A" is quintessential Warhol: pop art as historical record / historical record as pop art.

I tried, but gave up after 100 pages
I was determined to read this cover to cover for no other reason than to say I did it.I threw in the towel after 100 pages.Conceptually, it's intriguing.As for an aesthetically pleasing reading experience, I defy anyone to get through it word for word. ... Read more

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Village Voice and Interview cofounder John Wilcock was first drawn into the milieu of Andy Warhol through filmmaker Jonas Mekas, assisting on some of Warhol's early films, hanging out at his parties and quickly becoming a regular at the Factory. "About six months after I started hanging out at the old, silvery Factory on West 47th Street," he recalls, "[Gerard] Malanga came up to me and asked, 'When are you going to write something about us?'" Already fascinated by Warhol's persona, Wilcock went to work, interviewing the artist's closest associates, supporters and superstars. Among these were Malanga, Naomi Levine, Taylor Mead and Ultra Violet, all of whom had been in the earliest films; scriptwriter Ronnie Tavel, and photographer Gretchen Berg; art dealers Sam Green, Ivan Karp, Eleanor Ward and Leo Castelli, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Henry Geldzahler; the poets Charles Henri Ford and Taylor Mead, and the artist Marisol; and the musicians Lou Reed and Nico. Paul Morrissey supplied the title: The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol is the first oral biography of the artist. First published in 1971, and pitched against the colorful backdrop of the 1960s, it assembles a prismatic portrait of one of modern art's least knowable artists during the early years of his fame. The Autobiography and Sex Life is likely the most revealing portrait of Warhol, being composite instead of singular; each of its interviewees offers a piece of the puzzle that was Andy Warhol. This new edition corrects the many errors of the first, and is beautifully designed in a bright, Warholian palette with numerous illustrations.The British-born writer John Wilcock cofounded The Village Voice in 1955, and went on to edit seminal publications such as The East Village Other, Los Angeles Free Press, Other Scenes and (in 1970) Interview, with Andy Warhol. ... Read more

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Excellent Book on the Famed Pop Artist
This is a superbly designed, well written book on Warhol, by someone who was on the scene at the time, and who knew Andy, Gerard, and the rest of the gang very well. The book was formally launched at a party at the Gershwin Hotel on August 6, 2010, hosted by Bob Heide and John Gilman, both also part of the Warhol constellation in their own way, and brings back to life a time in New York City when life was easy, space was cheap to rent, everything seemed open to everyone, and the city was bursting with painting, music, film and the joy of living. Along with David Bourdon's book on Warhol, this is the one to buy. Nice to see it back in print in a much improved, better designed edition. Buy it in hardback; this one's a keeper. Highly recommended. ... Read more

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Despite his fame, Andy Warhol remains an enigmatic figure. Regarded as the prince of Pop Art, he took everyday images - Marylin Monroe, the Empire State Building and dollar bill - and transformed them into works of art via repetition. This book looks at his life and work. ... Read more

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Andy Warhol is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist. Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings ("Campbell-" and "Brillo" series), as well as their fascination for sensational journalism. In 1963 Warhol founded his "Factory" in New York, literally a manufactory of ideas and work, which influenced film in the 1960s, published the influential magazine "Interview" in the late 1970s, and also produced Warhol's own artwork: Warhol conceived the idea, and a "worker" in his factory carried it out. The work remained (consciously) unsigned - a fact which nevertheless did nothing to diminish Warhol's reputation. He once complained that rich New Yorkers would willingly hang his "Electric Chain" in their living rooms - as long as its colours co-ordinated with the wallpaper and draperies. ... Read more

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One of the most eclectic, celebrated and influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century, Andy Warhol is an emblem of American culture of the sixties and seventies. The Andy Warhol Show sheds light not only on the revolutionary role that Warhol played in art but also his influence on graphic design, communication and fashion. Introduced by the editors Gianni Mercurio and Daniela Morera, the exhibition catalogue includes new essays by Bruno Bischofberger, Victor Bokris, Ronald Feldman, Glenn ‘O Brien and a critical essay by Demetrio Paparoni.
The main nucleus of works reproduced in this striking catalogue is impressive: in addition to the 200 paintings which span his entire career, the book showcases a rich collection of photographs, graphic works and drawings, including Warhol’s early illustrations for fashion magazines. The fundamental themes of the Warhol aesthetic can be seen here in some of their most representative examples: the beauty-success-power myth (portraits of Marilyn, Liz Taylor, Elvis Presley, Jaqueline Kennedy, Mao); consumerism (Campbell’s Soup, Brillo Box, Dollar Sign); advertising, serial repetition of an image, the tragic symbols of catastrophe and death (Suicide, Electric Chair); portraits of artists, dealers, friends such as Leo Castelli, Keith Haring, Dennis Hopper; the passage through abstract art (Camouflage, Shadows); collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente; and The Last Supper, Warhol’s final series of works. ... Read more

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"This third volume of the catalogue dedicated to publishing the complete paintings, sculptures and drawings of Andy Warhol (1928-87) focuses on the years 1970 to 1974. With the authoritative writing and fascinating attention to detail of the first two volumes, Warhol's works of these four years are comprehensively catalogued and illustrated, with the exception of the drawings to be included in a subsequent volume.

At the time this volume begins Warhol had been working at his second factory, his studio at 33 Union Square West, since 1968 and his painting activity had not resumed since his recovery from having been shot that same year. He did not have a painting studio at this building until late 1971 or early 1972 and was instead concentrating on film and sculpture, including the ""Rain Machine"", as discussed in Chapter One. It was the acquiring of his first Big Shot polaroid camera that shifted his momentum back to painting again and he began to photograph his sitters, taking 25-100 shots, to capture a personality before beginning a painting.

Portraits of key figures of the time demonstrate his development of his new painterly style, mature by late 1972. The ""Mao Series"" was the first painting series since 1968, consisting of at least 199 paintings made between March 1972 and August 1973. His Mao paintings premiered in a grand exhibition in Paris in early 1974, and his portrait subjects included many of the most socially prominent and fashionable members of Parisian society, such as Yves Saint Laurent, Helene Rochas, and Sylvie de Waldner, as well as members of the international art world such as David Hockney, the dealer Alexandre Iolas, Henry Geldzahler. His painting style at this time was summed up by Warhol himself as 'sloppy and fast', painting wet-on-wet paint on top of the photographic image and screen prints, sometimes with fingers rather than brush. His style would change again in 1974 but in this volume we see several series and numerous commissioned portraits with this painterly style. He worked on series alongside commissions, and that of the Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray, the subject of Chapter 5, was a series of some sixty works that developed from a commissioned portrait.

Including transcriptions, the diaries Warhol kept in 1972 and 1973, and the Polaroids he took on his travels through Europe and of his subjects, this volume has a strong narrative that presents the artist at a time of great change in his work. The 1970s have been often neglected in studies of Warhol's career and this volume, highlighting his extraordinary engagement with the culture and society of the time, brings to deserved attention the work of the first four years of the decade." ... Read more

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Inside view of Warhol
This is an amazing publication that describes the artwork of Warhol by all of the materials surrounding his work. One see's the chronology and material process as well as the pictorial results of this innovative artist. ... Read more

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With illustrations culled from his Foundation for the Visual Arts, this mini-book portrays Warhol's shoe designs and includes rarities published for the first time. Accompanied throughout by Warhol quotes, the drawings demonstrate a talent for transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. ... Read more

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In the lastdecade beforehis death in 1987, Warhol continued to produce mesmerizing works at an astounding pace. Influenced by the most prominent artists of the 1980s,including Basquiat, Haring, Schnabel, and Clemente, Warhol experimented with a combination of painting and screen printing to develop an extraordinary vocabulary of images that traversed a variety of genres. The result is a remarkable output, collected here in this companion to a touring exhibition organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum. This catalogue delves into the range of works Warhol was creating during his last years, including abstract paintings, collaborations, and his final self-portraits. Essays by Keith Hartley and Gregory Volk and contributions by Bruno Bischofberger, Keith Haring, andJulian Schnabel round out this compelling look at an artist whose most fecund work may have been produced in his last years. ... Read more

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Warhol: first and foremost a painter.
It has become fashionable to reassess the late phases of great artists (Picasso in june 2009 in an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in NYC, Renoir in Paris in late 2009, are just two recent examples). This book, the catalogue for the current exhibition held at the Milwaukee Art Museum, which will later travel to Fort Worth, Brooklyn and Baltimore, follows this trend, with beautiful and often large-scale illustrations of the various series Warhol painted between 1977 and 1987: the so-called "Oxydation" paintings (made by urinating on the surface of the painting), the "Shadows" series, the "Retrospective" series (grouping several pop images from the early sixties on one single work), the Reversal series (negatives ofpolaroid shots), the lesser-known but highly innovative "Yarn" and "Rorschach" series, the Camouflage series and the Last Supper series (in which the artist revisits the history of painting by alluding to Leonardo's famous fresco in Milan). Also studied are Warhol's various collaborations with contemporaries such as Basquiat or Francesco Clemente, and his famous haunting late self-portraits (the so-called "fright-wig self-portraits").

The accompanying essays are quite interesting insofar as they shed new light on a huge and rather unknown body of works that show the artist flirting for the first time with abstraction (as in the Camouflage paintings and the Shadow paintings, studied here by Julian Schnabel in the reprint of a 1989 essay that stresses Warhol's painterly accomplishment as opposed to his fame as an image maker). There is also an exciting account of the making of the "Collaboration" series, seen from the point of view of an art dealer, by Bruno Bischofberger (the Swiss dealer who initiated Warhol's collaborations with Basquiat and Clemente).

Apart from the high quality of the illustrations, the main asset of this book is that it succeeds in reappraising Warhol's importance as a painter, and not only as an image maker or a manipulator of ideas. A hundred years from now, maybe it will be what Andy Warhol will be remembered for and this is why this book breaks new ground and should figure in any good contemporary arts library.

A Revelation
This is a wonderful book showing the artwork Andy Warhol produced in his last 10 years before his untimely death. Since most of his classic, 1960's pop art is so familiar seeing this less publicized artwork is very refreshing. Warhol created an incredible number of new series of works in these last 10 years. It's also interesting to see Warhol integrate a bigger use of hand painting and abstraction with mechanical reproduction. He also collaborated with the prominent artists of the 1980's like Haring and Basquiat to create fun mashups. And it's always interesting to see Warhol's self portraits and how they evolved in his later years. The book is well printed with excellent production values and highly recommended for long-time Andy Warhol fans. ... Read more

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The Polaroid camera combined two of Andy Warhol’s obsessions--the disposable nature of modern consumerism and the photograph as ready-made. An inveterate and relentless user of Polaroid cameras, he made tens of thousands of instant photographs during the 1970s. Many of these were made over a short time span and focused on one individual or subject, sometimes a formal sitting for a portrait, an informal event with friends, or a party at The Factory.

Between 1970 and 1976, Warhol established a rigorous system of cataloguing. He would take home the Polaroids, edit and sequence them, and then enter them in individual red Holson Polaroid albums. These albums, with Warhol’s original sequence and themes, have remained intact.

Red Books is a red wooden box containing 11 of Warhol's Holson Polaroid albums. Each book contains a facsimile reproduction of Warhol’s sequence. The themes include a study of Paloma Picasso, a day trip to Montauk, Mick Jagger, the "Asshole" painting, and John and Yoko. In addition to the 11 red books, a black book is included which contains a text by François-Marie Banier explaining the significance of these albums within Warhol’s oeuvre and how they act as a visual diary of his work, offering unrivaled insight into his creative process.Essay by François Marie Banier.Other, 5.5 x 3.5 in. / 300 pgs / 220 color. ... Read more

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all warhol fans a must have
these are fantastic there a personal glimps into andys world... its small books of his personal photos, there such a fun was to get inside his head.
but FYI there is some realy adult images so great for an adult but probably not for a younger child... but a great buy

Not for YOUNG Warhol fans!
I bought this set for my 12 year old daughter who LOVES Andy.Needless to say, she got quite an education from these books.I think there needs to be a label or warning in the description that states there are some questionable images in this set.With that being said, I felt that I got an entirely new experience out these books than some of the other Warhol books.I decided to keep these for myself and will give them back to my daughter when she is a few years older.

amazing
ok, so, Im a huge andy warhol fan, biiiig time, so I own lots of books, this one, ahmm itsss amazing, its likee u can see a real part of his life, personal stuff, u can see what the 70's were all about, amazing, buy it!!

WARHOL MANIA: SEEING RED AND LOVING IT
Andy Warhol Red Books is a coffee table book that's actually several books in one --- and a set that silences all competitors. These are copies of the Polaroids Andy took, neatly bound in red covers and bound with plastic spiral bindings --- 11 mini books in all with the twelfth (black) volume containing the pertinent names and dates of the photographs, plus an introduction by the internationally-renowned photographer Francois-Marie Banier. It is Banier who captures the allure of these instant photos best: "In his Polaroids, in those seemingly lacquered little pictures, I saw at once the cry of frantic and reckless youth, lost in a pseudo-civilized world. Each of these Polaroids goes one step further, telling us, from the land of Mickey Mouse: you are all Andy Warhol characters." From 1969 to 1975, celebrities (from Christopher Isherwood to Mick Jagger, Caroline Kennedy to Rudolph Nureyev, Rex Reed to Sylvia Miles), drag queens and assorted Warholian characters are captured crisply, realistically, and above all, affectionately. Owning the Red Books is (almost) like owning one of the more bizarre time capsules of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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A fresh new look at the painter, filmmaker, and raconteur who truly lived his art.

Andy Warhol was famous for being famous, but his body of work reveals a unique understanding of America's star-making machinery. Isabel Kuhl looks at the world Warhol inhabited as a young man--a post-war America on the brink of mass commercialism and mass production--to examine his iconic paintings and prints. She demonstrates how Warhol's fascination with pop culture meshed perfectly with a cultural mood at once reflective and rebellious. The innovative layout allows the artist's brilliantly colored prints and paintings spring to life, while photographs from Warhol's life in and out of the limelight offer a balanced appreciation of an artist who taught his audience how to appreciate his art. ... Read more

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Thought Provoking
I like the accessibility of Danto's book. Without losing his reader, Danto explains the art movements before and after Warhol, giving the reader the ability to focus on how Warhol became the icon he is today.The reader is not left behind in highbrow art definitions or in-depth analysis. You begin to think about what is art and how that definition changes as the culture changes.You can focus on the Marilyn paintings, the Brillo Boxes or the Campbell Soup Cans and begin to understand how Warhol changed how we understand what is art. The book even made me think about what Warhol might have done with the Internet.Danto's basic premise is refuted by Louis Menand in the Jan 11 2010 issue of The New Yorker. Read the book, read the article and then read Warhol's Diaries.A good book always makes you want more. Danto keeps the dialogue going on in your head long after you have finished the book.

interesting and informative
I've been really interested in Warhol since seeing an exhibit of his material at the Milwaukee Art Museum and decided to read this book.I found it really interesting.Danto brings up the questions of what art is and who can make it repeatedly, giving one much to think about.He shows how in a time when art was divorced from the experience of everyday Americans, Warhol and the other pop artists made art that featured images that everyone recognized, but in new ways.As an introduction to the life and work of Andy Warhol, I thought this was a good read.

What Happened to Danto?
What has happened to Arthur C. Danto?Once Danto was amongst the greatest living aestheticians, as well as an eminent art critic for "The Nation".One could always assume that his writings would be interesting and often provocative.After this volume one can not rely on the assumption.

The book is part of a series of short books from the Yale University Press, aimed at exploring American culture by exploring the lives of particular individuals.Danto quickly claims that this is not a biography of Warhol but rather a "study of what makes Warhol so fascinating as an artist from a philosophical point of view."However he then chronicles Warhol's life with generous references to other Warhol biographers.Along the way he asserts that Warhol forced philosophers to redefine art, but goes on to say that he will not discuss this since he has written elsewhere of it.

There is no doubt that Andy Warhol was an important cultural icon, perhaps as much from self-marketing as from the content and form of his work.Danto identified the importance of his work at an early time.He asked and asks a useful question.Why is a Brillo box created in a factory and displayed in a supermarket not art, while a Brillo box created in an atelier and displayed in a gallery is art?The clear inference, made express elsewhere in Danto's writings, is that intentionality is somehow essential to art.Danto asserts that this was one of Warhol's breakthroughs, and unconvincingly dismisses DuChamp's ready-mades as not really making the point.

The fact of the matter is that this is old ground for Danto, having been expressed more clearly and with greater detail in earlier works.I suppose that for generations that never heard of Warhol and that may be interested into a quick peek into his life and work, without too much effort (the essay is less than 150 pages of easily-grasped language and generously-sized type) the volume may be of interest.The few illustrations in the book are in black and white and of rather poor quality, but perhaps that is all that is necessary to illustrate Warhol's work.Perhaps his work is better to read about then to actually see.

Those who have believed that Danto was an important guide through the philosophy of art may begin to wonder if the guide will return to providing new insights.

Philosophy of Arthur Danto
Like all philosophers' ponderings, this book is more about Arthur Danto than it is about Andy Warhol. ... Read more

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A major reassessment of the most influential and controversial American artist of the second half of the twentieth century

To his critics, he was the cynical magus of a movement that debased high art and reduced it to a commodity. To his admirers, he was the most important artist since Picasso. Indisputably, Andy Warhol redefined what art could be. As the quintessential Pop artist, he razed the barrier between high and low culture, taking as his subject matter comic books, tabloids, Hollywood publicity photos, and supermarket products. Through his films and the exotic milieu of the Factory, he exhibited an unprecedented talent for publicity and outrage, revealing an underworld of speed freaks, transvestites, and glittering, doomed superstars. Beneath the deceptively simple surface of his silk screens, the old hierarchies of art collapsed. Warhol's x-ray vision exposed the garish, vulgar, and irrepressible new world of 1960s America.

Focusing on that influential decade, Pop disentangles the myths of Warhol--fraught with contradictions--from the man he truly was, and offers a vivid, entertaining, and provocative look at the legendary artist's personal and artistic evolution during his most productive and innovative years. A detailed, insightful chronicle of his rise, as well as a critical examination of Warhol's most important works, this ground-breaking book sheds light on a man who remains an icon of the twentieth century. Drawing on brand-new sources--including extensive original interviews and insight from those who knew him best--Pop offers the most dynamic, comprehensive portrait ever written of the man who changed the way we see the world.

Art from Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn, 1962. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 83 1⁄4" × 57". Gift of Philip Johnson. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York.	Andy Warhol, Silver Liz, 1963. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 40" × 40 1⁄2". Collection of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York. Photo credit: The Andy Warhol Foundation, Inc./Art Resource, New York.	Andy Warhol, “Flowers,” 1964. Screenprint printed on white paper. 23" × 23". © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo credit: The Andy Warhol Foundation, Inc./Art Resource, New York.	Bob Dylan’s screen test. © Billy Name/Ovoworks.	Andy in front of Serendipity, 1961. Photo by John Ardoin. Courtesy of Serendipity 3.

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Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol
His name is Andrew Warhola, but he is famously known the world over as Andy Warhol. He is a "pop" artist from the 1960s who confounded the world with his fine creations because he looked at the sublime in all things common. You either like him or you don't. There's no ambivalent middle ground with someone like Warhol. His admirers consider him the most important artist since Picasso. But to his critics, he is the cynical magus of a movement that debased high art by reducing it into commodity. However you see him, Andy Warhol's controversial life, and art, is here to stay.

In //Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol//, Tony Scherman and David Dalton gives you a major reassessment of Warhol's life, work and influence. This book "disentangles" the myths of the man as an artist--fraught with contradictions--from the man he truly was, and offers a vivid, entertaining, and provocative look at his personal and artistic evolution. This is a detailed, insightful chronicle of his rise, as well as a critical examination of his most important works. Drawing on fresh sources, including extensive interviews and insights with those who knew him best, //Pop// offers the most dynamic, comprehensive study of an artist who, in one way or the other, made us see the world differently.

Reviewed by Dominique James

Tony Scherman "POP"Valerie's gun

"If in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act."

The authors write, "When she left the Chelsea, Solanas had asked Mrs. Wilson if she could keep her laundry at her apartment.`She showed up with a bulky-looking flowered cloth bag and put it under the bed.One morning Valerie arrived at my mother's door, 208 West 23rd Street,' said Wilson, `saying she had come for her laundry'" (Page 421). No one ever said "bulky-looking," that is an editor making an event explicit but truly false.This passage sounds like a rewrite by someone who uses another journalist's notes, without getting confirmation from people who were interviewed. The point of the anecdote has been blunted by not understanding the deception about a gun.Valerie Solanas often visited May Wilson, and as often asked to 'borrow' $5 or $10.She asked to keep her laundry under the bed, but she arrived with non-bulky flower-print cloth bag which she said was her laundry, and shoved it under the bed.The bag contained no laundry, but one pistol. To get laughs, May Wilson would pull the bag out, then press the cloth to outline the gun - in a studio-apartment where children often played (see "twin baby daughters," page 134).She would say, "This is Valerie's laundry!"Thus a "feminist," Valerie, deceived a friendly older woman who even fed her. On June 3,1968, Valerie retrieved her gun. While exploitation of a generous woman is added to attempted murders, add "exploitation" to this book.If a book is untrustworthy on one page, then...

Portrait of A Fabulous American Hero
With Pop Art entering its dotage, here come the book that delivers its fascinating youth and adolescence. Authors Scherman and Dalton, who clearly have earned themselves a Pulitzer if there is any justice in this world, form a genius tag team. Dalton, the insider, the eye witness, delivers the juicy gossip. Scherman, the talented journalist, delivers one of the great portraits of the American art world. The book focuses on the 1960s, the decade when the Pop artists of New York City completed the work of the Abstract Expressionists in the previous decade and knocked Europe off its pedestal to claim the center of the art universe.

Of course, at its center is the Dada of it all, Mr. Andy Warhola. We get a brief background of Andy's sickly childhood in Pittsburgh, where he escaped from a world of crowded immigrant flats and skin ailments by immersing himself in his mother's Hollywood fanzines. We follow him in his late teens to Carnegie Tech where he is both thought a fraud and a genius. There Andy discovers his penchant for shock with paintings that explore nose-picking and cross-dressing.

After graduation, Andy moves to New York and his fierce climb to the top begins. Warhol's ambition is shameless. He courts critics, dealers, Jasper Johns and anyone else that can move his career forward in the slightest. But he has the talent to match. His early work has him painting blow-ups of comic strips at least a year before the emergence of Roy Lichtenstein. Warhol, in the eyes of the authors, succeeds not because he hitches his wagon to the Pop tidal wave as much as he is the historical and personal embodiment of its ethos. The real achievement of this book, however, is that by the end the high priest of camp emerges as a hero as worthy as anything the Greeks had in their art.

Pop
This is a very informative and well-researched book with a lot of interesting and verified takes on a very complex Guy we will never really know.

Best book on Pop Art and Andy Warhol I've read!
This book is fabulous.It's the first book that really answered for me the question "What is Pop Art?"I had often inquired of others and researched Pop Art, but was often confused, until reading this book.The detail and evolution of Andy Warhol's life and art is vividly depicted.He's a fascinating character -- an extremely ambitious, hard-working man, masked beneath a nonchalant and detached outward persona.

Andy often contradicted himself:describing Pop Art as only depicting "the boringness of life" and elsewhere declaring Pop Art "as portraying the beauty of the ordinary".But Warhol's genius emerged early on when he was merely illustrating shoe ads for I. Miller Shoes.His unusual flair was apparent and some artists actually collected these images to study.

If you appreciate Pop Art and the era, and Andy Warhol -- get this book.Kudos to the authors -- you did a great job! ... Read more

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Fabulous Coffee Table book
This book is beautiful it uses both hand draw art and a compulation of quotes by the author ... i love to read it and look at the pictures ---whether you love warhol or angels this book is a definate yes to any collector ... Read more

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This title explores an interpretation of Andy Warhol's "The Last Supper Series". It brings together two worlds, the sacred and the secular. By showing how the sacred is manifest in advertising, it demonstrates the metaphorical power of popular imagery. Warhol bore out the proposition that an artist is essentially a "Yours faithfully". The essence of his "Last Supper series" lies in the mystery that should remain so: "mirari non rimari sapientia vera est". To scrutinize the host would be unfaithful to Christ, who said: "This is my Body". To perceive Warhol's work as simply signifying itself would be unfaithful to the most influential American artist. A case in point is "The Last Supper (Dove)": pictorial analysis proves that Leonardo's Il Cenacolo was not robbed of its sublimity. Warhol remained faithfully to it as a means of unveiling the holy. ... Read more

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Interesting for Analysis, Near Unreadable for Writing
Check out a free copy of this work before you purchase it if you can. Either online via a major search engine or in a library of some sorts. There is good information to be had from the book, but damn if it isn't hidden under poor composition and redundancy. ... Read more

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This book grew out of an exhibition that was organized by the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, in 2005. With the show, Shafrazi paid homage to a seminal display of Warhol's portraits that took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1979-80. Titled "Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 1970s," the Whitney exhibition presented for the first time a large array of the commissioned portraits that the artist began in the early 1970s as a way to offset the cost of multiplying activities at the Factory. Shafrazi's exhibition included many of the portraits shown in the original Whitney exhibition as well as others. This volume takes Shafrazi's exhibition even further, nearly doubling the number of works shown.Art historians and critics have long neglected this body of Warhol's work, preferring to discuss and study the more iconic Lizzes and Marilyns or Campbell's Soup Cans of the 1960s. Many of the portraits in this book have rarely been seen before.For example, the book will include, in addition to the famous portraits of Jackie, Marlon Brando, or Dennis Hopper, images that Warhol made of actors Bill Murray and Meryl Streep, of fellow artists Donald Judd, Cy Twombly, and Joseph Kosuth, of royal family members such as Princess Diana and Princess Caroline, and of lesser-known socialites and art patrons. This book includes an essay by Robert Rosenblum, who also contributed to the Whitney's original exhibition catalogue, a text by renowned art historian and Warhol expert Carter Ratcliff, and an introduction by Tony Shafrazi. ... Read more

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The Original Warhol
There are many Warhol imitations these days, lots of computer programs and filters to create a Warhol-like effect but seeing these original Warhols makes you appreciate his wonderful eye that made things Warholian. His composition, cropping, color sense all added to the effect of a true Warhol portrait. This is the element a Photoshop filter is missing...the Warhol eye. I especially enjoyed seeing the portraits of non-celebrities because Warhol was able to make everyone look sexy and cool.

Fascinating and lovely
Everyone is familiar with Andy Warhol's famous portraits like the Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and the Mao. But fewer people know the many portraits he did of famous, glamourous, or simply wealthy patrons.

I have read the Andy Warhol Diaries, his Philosophy book and other Warhol related works, so it is now very interesting to see what his many portraits look like. They are each colorful, creative and interesting.

The book is a nice hard-bound large format coffee-table edition.

full and detailed
This is an execellent recource for someone looking to see all of Warhol's ouvre - it includes practically all there is to see from his portraits. I loved it but I would only recommend it to someone with specific interest in the subject. Otherwise some other book featuring less but more varied works woud be more appropriate.

Face-to-Face Comparisons Reveal Warhol's Perspectives
When most people think of Andy Warhol, images of Campbell's soup cans and a vividly colored Chairman Mao come to mind.For those who know Warhol better, memories also include Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, most wanted posters, and self-portraits of the artist.

What few appreciate is that portraiture was the bread-and-butter that Warhol used to finance his experimental work at the Factory.Before this book, you could not see the full range of this work.Unframed and grouped with similar and complementary works in the same time period, these 300 portraits show a considerable range of style and expression that will be a new perspective for all but collectors of Warhol portraits.I found the work to be so impressive that it totally changed my sense of who Warhol was as an artist.

In this book, the portraits do the talking.The brief essays merely describe the processes that Warhol used and that he tried to make people look good . . . and larger than life.But you knew that already, didn't you?

The range of the ways he captured the spirit of his subjects is what's most impressive in this volume.Repetition of the same image in one work with different treatments could help us see many different expressions of the person (see Natalie 1962).In other places, many images of the same person in one work express mood, movement, and a story (see Sixteen Jackies 1964). In other cases, multiple images of the same subject give us deep insight into personality (see Ethel Scull 1963).In other cases, the multiple images show the reality as well as the personality (see Merce Cunningham 1963 and Triple Rauschenberg 1963).

Exploring different use of colors and backgrounds, Warhol could totally change our emotions as viewers (Silver Liz 1963 gives us a sense of coolness and elegance while Liz 1963 shows a woman of great emotion and passion).

In Warhol's process, subjects were photographed around 100 times using a Polaroid camera.The subject then picked the images (or image) that she or he liked best.The images were turned into silk screens.Then, Warhol added the background and color to capture what the mere shape could not. The degree of focus also creates more or less power and immediacy (compare Donald Judd 1967 and Robert Rauschenberg 1967).

The portraits also create dialogues, such as when married couples had their portraits done around the same time.In the book, these images are often on facing pages.You'll be arrested to see Nelson Rockefeller 1967 and Happy Rockefeller 1968 looking off into the same spot in space . . . but not each other.The color overlap is minimal, emphasizing their differences.

These images are even more arresting when the pair are portrayed looking away from one another as with Gianni Agnelli 1972 and Marella Agnelli 1972.
In places, painterly backgrounds add remarkable depth and power to the images as with the Agnellis.

In places, the painterly treatment is sufficient to remind one of the work of Degas such as Lee Radziwell, 1972.

Portrait creators have always arranged sitters carefully to emphasize a certain point.Warhol does this in a very minimal way, often adding more than part of a hand touching the face or a bit of clothing.Because of its slight use, the impact is much stronger.

How do the subjects fare?Those with strong personalities do best.Those with complex personalities are rendered beautifully, but aren't as accessible.Subjects who want to look physically attractive often appear merely decorative, like a background model at a party.

Warhol's talent can best be seen by comparing the various ways he renders eyes.Male and female subjects alike receive slashes of color that sometimes resemble eye shadow and other times seem like tiny masks.

There isn't much that's soulful about these works.They are more about promotion than about moral uplift.It's all the more surprising when that soulfulness appears as in Farah Dibah Pahlavai (Empress of Iran) 1977.

Seeing Judy Garland 1979 and Liza Minelli 1979 made me wish that Warhol had done more mother-daughter combinations.These two stunners crawl right inside you.

Part of Warhol's art comes in knowing something about the person.Where the subject is unknown, you'll find yourself a little more baffled about what the message is.Think of each of the celebrity portraits then as being in part a reflection of the public image and our current perceptions.Warhol uses this celebrity awareness to good purpose in creating very minimal works that express the dominant impression of a person (see Martha Graham 1980).

As his career continued, the works became more daring.I was particularly drawn to the line drawings with bold bands of color such as in Paul Delvaux 1981 and Jean Cocteau 1985.

Some of these portraits will cause you to stop and rethink what you know about the people.I had that reaction to the pairing of Prince Charles 1982 (coolly displayed as a young symbol of the monarchy) with the almost flirtatious Princess Diana 1982 (appearing as a powerful force with an earthy grounding).

The portrait of John Lennon is simply stunning (1985-86).

For a good sense of Warhol's progress, you'll enjoy seeing many of his self-portraits.

Enjoy a good look!

A less familiar Warhol
This book enables the reader to discover some rarely seen paintings by Warhol, representing many personalities from the sixties, seventies and eighties, from O.J. Simpson to Pelé, from the Queen of England to the Shah of Iran, artists, art dealers, art collectors, musicians (John Lennon...), actors, fashion designers and friends of the artist's. Even though it was this kind of work that drew the harshest criticism (Robert Hughes, critic for Time Magazine, dubbed Warhol the new Van Dongen, meaning by that that he only painted superficial portraits of the rich and famous of his time), they still show the scope and depth of Warhol's creative power. The book is lavishly illustrated and the text was written by leading Warhol authorities (dealer or critic). A very complete checklist of all the portraits illustratedis given at the end of the book. A valuable addition to the albeit extensive Warhol literature. ... Read more

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ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE is a spectacular visual biography of the life and career of Andy Warhol.Weighing in at 15 pounds, this enormous book is packed with 2,000 images and documents, many rare or previously unpublished.

Taking its inspiration from Warhol’s over-the-top nature, ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE depicts the major events, people, works and moments in the artist’s life told in chronological order by subject.As Warhol almost never threw anything away (from restaurant receipts to postcards), the featured material in the book has been painstakingly compiled.As the publisher of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Phaidon was granted unprecedented access to an array of public and private image and memorabilia archives and collections, including the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh as well as the holdings of many Warhol collaborators, friends, and photographers of the period.

The large-format of ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE enables the reader to explore in detail hundreds of fascinating photographs, letters, personal correspondence, art works, film stills, tickets, receipts, celebrity head shots, notes, press clippings and ephemera all featured in this one of a kind publication. The book also features illuminating texts by insiders Bruno Bischofberger, Ronnie Cutrone, David Dalton, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ivan Karp and Peggy Phelan.

What is unique about ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE is that it provides fascinating insight into the public and private life of Warhol and in many cases also reveals the stories behind his art works.The book provides amazing comparisons between his work and his life that have never been demonstrated visually in such a way before.For example, it not only features Warhol’s famous "Mao" series, but also includes ephemera from a 1982 trip to China (his passport, boarding pass, a souvenir from his hotel, etc.) alongside a photo of Warhol standing in front of the Forbidden City in Beijing with an official Mao portrait in the background.

This important new publication includes a staggering quantity and array of colorful material including: Warhol’s birth certificate, citing Andrew ‘Warhola’ was born on 8/6/28 in Pittsburgh; childhood photographs of his family; the magazine tear sheet showing the first article he illustrated for Glamour when he arrived in New York in 1949;numerous photos of Warhol with his mother; artworks for gold shoes he created in the 1950s; a letter from the MOMA dated 1959 in which the Director of the Museum’s Collections rejects a work of art Warhol offered them as a gift; photographs of Warhol posing with Edie Sedgwick in a New York fashion shoot; personal letters from Mick Jagger and Liz Taylor; pictures of Warhol in the office working on Interview; pictures of Warhol private views; a series of shots of Warhol in drag; the program from his Memorial Mass on 4/1/87 and his gravestone.

ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE is the only publication available that features Warhol’s entire life, work and words in one book.The visual biography offers a behind-the-scenes look at the New York art scene of the 1950s to the 1980s, and provides a new perspective on an artist who continues to be endlessly fascinating to those inside and outside of the art world. ... Read more

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The Best Ever About Warhol
Bigger is better -- especially when it comes to Warhol.If you've ever hesitated about buying this huge book, don't!It's the next best thing to owning an original piece by Warhol to have images so big and presented so artfully.I've been a fan of Warhol since 1971 and this book brings the whole pop art experience to life.Play the Velvet Underground & Nico album while you read this great book and it will all make sense.

BEST WARHOL BOOK EVAH!!!
Seriously. I own just about every coffee table book there is about Warhol, the Factory, and his Superstars and none of them, and I mean NONE of them, compare to Giant Size.

Giant Size is a chronological visual biography that not only gives a greater insight to Warhol's life but also includes never before seen photos, correspondence, film stills, and artworks all in one GIANT SIZE close to 800 page book. You even get to see the actual source material for many of Warhol's famous screen print paintings, entire series of paintings hardly ever touched upon in other books (like his photo booth series) and a really comprehensive overview of his films.

Starting from his birth and ending at his death, you feel like a close personal friend flipping through an intimate photo album as you journey through Andy's wild, celebrity filled life.

This book is MUST HAVE for any Warhol fan.

If you only buy one book on Warhol, GIANT SIZE is it.

Also, try to suss this out at a book store. I found a brand new copy still sealed in plastic for less than 55 clams.

And Warhol "Giant" Size
This is an amazing overview of Andy Warhol's life and art. He is such an icon of the 20th century. His art was so progessive and way ahead of it's time.

contact from seller would have helped
Seller failed to contact me about product even though I requested it. I had a question about product.The condition should have been more accurately described.It was damaged but the extent of damage was not stated well, just general info.Seller needs to respond to request for contact.

Great gift idea
Bought as a gift for a 21st birthday. Will be a memory that he can keep for a long time with a personal message on the inside front cover.

Great gift idea! Would highly recommend ... Read more

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Description: In the age of mass media, American culture has displayed an unequaled fascination with both celebrities and disasters. Andy Warhol was one of the first artists to investigate these twin obsessions, beginning in the mid-1960s, as he shifted his practice from hand-painting to the mechanical photo silkscreen process. Andy Warhol/Supernova brings together more than 50 examples of the artist's early silkscreen work, juxtaposing his iconic serial images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley with his evocative and often disturbing appropriations of car crashes, electric chairs, and other ìdisasters,î appropriated from photojournalism and made side by side. The combination provides a glimpse into a prevailing condition of American modernity--this dual fascination with fame and tragedy--that remains a key component of our national identity. Looking back at this body of masterworks, now some 40 years old, it becomes clear that if some things have changed, more have stayed the same. ... Read more

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Seminal Warhol
The catalogue for an exhibition held 3 years ago at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, this book is, to my knowledge, the most complete study of Warhol's most important bodies of works, all painted in the 1960's and revolving around the idea of celebrity and death (the Death and Disasters series, the Jackie Kennedy, Liz Tailor and Marilyn Monroe series). The text, sometimes arduous, sometimes exciting, is insightful and opens new fields of study on the famous pop artist. Above all, the reproductions are wonderful (which is seldom the case for a book on Warhol)and make this catalogue an indispensable addition to the Warhol literature.

A 'must' for any serious Warhol collection
SUPERNOVA: STARS, DEATHS, AND DISASTERS 1962-64 gathers Andy Warhol's works from a narrow period of time, with a focus on Warhol's paintings of disasters, crashes, and more. Essays by Warhol critics accompany this survey of his works in a range of media, providing a visual catalog of his artistic methods and influence and presenting holdings from the Walker Art Center, which began its relationship with Warhol in 1967. ANDY WARHOL/SUPERNOVA accompanies an exhibition but stands well on its own, packing in large-size black and white and color photos from Warhol's works and including the background commentary and criticism essential to understanding them. A 'must' for any serious Warhol collection.

Diane C. Donovan
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Warhol catalogue
Catalogue from Walker Art Center.
Arrived safely (after 2 weeks?) in a very good condition. ... Read more

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One of the world's best-known artists, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) still exerts influence on contemporary art and culture. Packed with information about Warhol's prolific creativity, as well as his other cultural interests, the project follows the arc of his life. This beautifully illustrated publication reveals Warhol's rags-to-riches life from his early years in Depression-era Pittsburgh to his success as an illustrator in New York City in the 1950s and his transformation into a notorious Pop Artist, underground filmmaker, author, publisher, collector, recorder and iconic celebrity. With 21 beautifully produced removable facsimile documents help give an unprecedented insight into Warhol's life and work in this unique and authoritative guide to this celebrated modern artist. ... Read more

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Facsimile Documents make it worth the money alone.
This is the coolest book I've ever seen.I can't put it down!The documents included within several pockets in the book are of such exquisite quality. They are reproductions of newspapers, greeting cards, personal handwritten letters, andy warhol's photo identification, and smaller more intimate books from his early career that can be removed from the book.I've never seen reproductions that look so real.If you love Andy Warhol, and wish you could own a piece of his original art, but can't afford it... get this book.Its as good as the real thing in my opinion : )

Illustrated Story Details the Life of Andy Warhol
Many art critics agree Picasso is the most important artist of the first half of the 20th century, and that Warhol holds the title for the second half. More than 100 books have been published since his death, but as a Warhol collector for decades I can say "Andy Warhol Treasures" is a "must have."

Here's why. The book highlights the full arc of Warhol's career and the authors are experts who have worked for The Andy Warhol Museum since it opened in Pittsburgh, PA in 1994. Geralyn Huxley, Film Curator, and Matt Wrbican, Archivist, have curated more than a hundred Warhol-themed shows at the Warhol Museum and museums throughout the world including the Tate Modern, MOMA, and Guggenheim Bilbao.

The book opens with his Pittsburgh childhood where he played with Shirley Temple paper dolls as a sickly child, and chronicles his life until his death in Manhattan in 1987.It details his early days as a commercial illustrator, explores his silver Factory of the legendary 60s, and takes you behind the scenes at Studio 54.Warhol's story ends as this iconic figure fathers the 80s Soho art/consumer scene in the age of Reagan and unbriddled capitalism.

Reproductions of major artworks feature soup cans, Marilyn Monroe, and electric chairs; images from films such as the 8-hour "Empire"; and photos of superstars like Nico and Viva.The book also includes more than 20 removable facsimile items from Warhol's Time Capsules.Here's your chance to own a sample of cow wallpaper, a get well card from Edie Sedgwick, and even a poster of the Velvet Underground.


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The art of Andy Warhol continues to hold surprises foreven the seasoned Warhol admirer.The best works from one of theworld's largest private collections of Warhol paintings are publishedhere for the first time in book form.Beginning with whimsicalpaintings from the pre-Pop period, this selection of over 100 worksspans the full breadth of Warhol's spectacular career, up until hislast project: The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci.Morethan 200 illustrations, many in full color, give a comprehensiveoverview of the many facets in the work of the "pope of Pop art."

Of particular interest is a little-known series of "Paintings forChildren," published here for the first time.These delightfulpictures of ships, planes, robots, and toys were hung just three feetfrom the floor when first shown in 1983.

A concise biography, richly illustrated with many color plates;quotations from Warhol about art and about himself, as essay on Warholand the American Dream by David Bourdon; a memoir by art historian andcritic Pierre Restany; an interview from 1963 by G.R. Swenson and thelast one with Paul Taylor in 1987; as well as a chronology and adetailed and updated bibliography contribute to this fascinating,colorful book. ... Read more

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Andy Warhol prints
We use it as a reference for our Gallery and it is very useful. ... Read more