Andy warhol biography book
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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 I have in my book.) After spending seven years writing this biography and living with Andy Warhol, as it were, I really did come to think that he is 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 is 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 20 most notable books on Andy Warhol
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The literature on Andy Warhol and his art is bygd now so extensive that few can find their way through it any longer—be they experts in the field or merely interested readers. Instead of compiling a lengthy, more or less exhaustive list of titles and leaving readers to make what they can of this, we have chosen a different approach: this rigorous selection of 20 titles is intended to provide the reader with an overview of the most important and most interesting books and catalogs devoted to the work of Warhol.
Each title fryst vatten followed bygd a short description and evaluation of its contents and distinguishing features. It is our sincere hope that this selection will be a useful tool both for those seeking an introduction and for those wanting to become more closely acquainted with Warhol’s work.
1. Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol: A Picture Show bygd the Artist, The Early Works – (New York: Rizzoli, )
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Warhol (book)
biography by Blake Gopnik
Cover of first edition (Ecco) | |
| Author | Blake Gopnik |
|---|---|
| Audio&#;read&#;by | Graham Halstead |
| Working&#;title | Warhol: A Life as Art[2] |
| Cover&#;artist | Barton Silverman (photo) Allison Saltzman (design) |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Andy Warhol |
| Publisher | Ecco (US) Allen Lane (UK) |
Publication date | March 5, (UK) April 28, (US) |
| Publication place | United States United Kingdom |
| Media&#;type | Print (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