Complete biography of andy warhol book

  • In Warhol, esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions.
  • The pop artist has captivated the world's attention for almost a century.
  • Warhol (or Warhol: A Life as Art) is a biography of American artist Andy Warhol written by art critic Blake Gopnik.

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    The best books on Andy Warhol

    Before we get to the books, tell me: who was Andy Warhol?

    I would need a thousand pages to answer that question! (Luckily, that’s what inom have in my book.) After spending seven years writing this biography and living with Andy Warhol, as it were, inom really did come to think that he fryst vatten one of the great creative geniuses of our era, or indeed any era.

    I started out by being a fan of his work, but over time I became more and more interested in him as a figure. One of the major points in my book fryst vatten that he’s not at all the kind of holy fool or idiot savant that he still stands as in the popular imagination, and even to a certain extent among art historians. He was a deeply sophisticated thinker about art, as much so as other high calibre thinkers like Donald Judd or Pablo Picasso. Although he wasn’t a propositional thinker – he was an artist not an academic – he was nonetheless a genuine, old-fashioned genius, in the sense that he took on problems and

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    The Andy Warhol Reading Guide

    Tastemakers cycle in and out of the collective consciousness, with the rare exception of a few who become mainstays, weathering the whims and follies of fleeting trends. One such artist, Andy Warhol, would probably be delighted that he has long surpassed his allotted fifteen minutes of fame. For the better part of a century, his star has continued to rise, casting a halo on any who sparkled in his constellation—there have been countless movies, songs, and novels that orbit his influence. And for good reason: At his best, Warhol was a provocateur, probing the limits of art, film, and attitude with equal measure.

    Many in his galaxy plummeted back to earth eventually—perhaps cloaking him, his superstars, and hangers-on in even more mystery and fascination. Ostensibly the first influencer, Warhol curated friends and aesthetics as he might an exhibit. He fractured taboos, openly scaled social ladders, and in his art, satirized historically lauded institut

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    Warhol (book)

    biography by Blake Gopnik

    Cover of first edition (Ecco)
    Andy Warhol on his favorite chair, in New York, February 27, , photograph by Barton Silverman[1]

    AuthorBlake Gopnik
    Audio&#;read&#;byGraham Halstead
    Working&#;titleWarhol: A Life as Art[2]
    Cover&#;artistBarton Silverman (photo)
    Allison Saltzman (design)
    LanguageEnglish
    SubjectAndy Warhol
    PublisherEcco (US)
    Allen Lane (UK)

    Publication date

    		March 5, (UK)
    April 28, (US)
    Publication placeUnited States
    United Kingdom
    Media&#;typePrint (hardcover), e-book, audiobook
    Pages
    ISBN (US hardcover)
    (UK hardcover)
    Website

    Warhol (or Warhol: A Life as Art) is a biography of American artist Andy Warhol written by art critic Blake Gopnik. It was published by Allen Lane in the UK and Ecco in the US. At pages in length, it has been marketed as the definitive biography of Warhol.[3]Waldemar Januszczak of The Sun

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