Andy Warhol / Wayne Koestenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koestenbaum, Wayne.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin lives series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.

Warhol, Andy.

Artists--United States--Biography.

Artists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 224 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Viking], [2001.]

Summary:

The sixties were the "sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll" era, and Andy Warhol was its cultural icon. Painter, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, Warhol was both celebrity and celebrant, the man who put the "Pop" in art. His studio, the Factory, where his free-spirited cast of "superstars" mingled with the rich and famous, was ground zero for the explosions that rocked American cultural life. And yet for all his fame, Warhol was an enigma: a participant in the excesses of his time who remained a faithful churchgoer, a nearly inarticulate man who was also a great aphorist ("In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes"), an artist whose body of work sizzles with sexuality but whose own body was a source of shame and self-hatred.

In his bravura account of Warhol's life and work, scholar and culture critic Wayne Koestenbaum gets past the contradictions and reveals the man beneath the blond wig and dark glasses. Nimbly weaving brilliant and witty analysis into an absorbing narrative, Koestenbaum approaches Warhol as a serious artist, one whose importance goes beyond the sixties. Focusing on Warhol's provocative, powerful films (many of which have been out of circulation since their initial release), Koestenbaum shows that Warhol's oeuvre, in its variety of forms (films, silkscreens, books, "happenings"), maintains a striking consistency of theme: Warhol discovered in classic American images (Brillo boxes, Campbell soup cans, Marilyn's face) a secret history, an erotics of time and space.

Contents:

Introduction: Meet Andy Paperbag 1

Before

1. Traumas 17

2. Pussy Heaven 33

The Sixties

3. Screens 55

4. Torture 90

5. Rupture 129

After

6. Shadows 159

7. Endangered Species 188.

Notes:

"A Lipper/Viking book."

"A Penguin life."

"First published in 2001 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjackets retained.

ISBN:

0670030007

OCLC:

46422387