Andy Warhol: Making Money - Hardcover

Warhol, Andy; Reinhold, Berkeley

 
9780847834914: Andy Warhol: Making Money

Synopsis

This text is an artist's book created by Andy Warhol in 1981 at Christmas time for Berkeley Reinhold, the cousin of art-advocate Henry Geldzahler. Beginning with a simple outline and embodying a flipbook-like genesis, abstract drawings by Warhol become increasingly recognizable as the artist's dollar sign.

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About the Author

Berkeley Reinhold is an agent and head of music business affairs at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment in Beverly Hills. Vincent Fremont was Warhol's confidant and long-time business associate. Deborah Harry is a singer-songwriter most famous for being the lead singer of Blondie.

From the Back Cover

A whimsically designed facsimile of a unique book of drawings made by Andy Warhol that celebrates the dollar sign as lingua franca. Few artists made money their concern as openly as Andy Warhol. He made many pronouncements on his fascination with the dollar ("Big-time art is big-time money"), both as a symbol and as something he cherished, and so it was only natural that the dollar sign itself, one of the most recognized symbols anywhere in the world, that international denominator of currency, should ente

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