Review:
Artist, filmmaker, magazine publisher, instigator of Pop Art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) used his canvasses of dollar bills, soup cans, and celebrities to subvert distinctions between high and popular culture. His spectacular career encompassed the underground scene as well as the equally deviant worlds of politics, show business, and high society. Warhol is the definitive chronicle of Warhol's storied life.
Synopsis:
}Artist, filmmaker, writer, rock producer, publisher, and the leading exponent of Pop Art, Andy Warhol (19281987) used his canvasses of dollar bills, soup cans, disasters, and celebrities to erase the distinction between high and popular culture. His spectacular career shaped and encompassed the underground scene of drugs, sex, and punk rock as well as the equally deviant worlds of big business, politics, show business, and high society. Victor Bockris was Warhols friend and worked at his famous Factory. Based on the authors intimate knowledge and interviews with family, friends, lovers, business associates, and enemies, this definitive biography reveals Warhols complex and controversial life. }
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