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Before he found fame as the father of Pop Art, Andy Warhol was an accomplished advertising illustrator and commercial artist for fashion tastemakers such as Barney's, Neiman Marcus, I. Miller, Glamour, Mademoiselle, and Harper's Bazaar. This delicately beautiful, colorfully playful, and hugely influential fashion illustration work from the 1950s has never before been collected in a book. A pop object in itself, Andy Warhol Fashion is a fun and gorgeous gallery of hundreds of his most delightful images. These witty drawings -- fanciful shoes, chic hats, smart suits, and perfect accessories to match -- showcase his unique ability to find inspiration in the everyday and elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary. Sprinkled with Warhol's perceptively funny observations ("When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums."), and a reflection on Warhol's influence in the fashion world by Simon Doonan, Andy Warhol Fashion is a must-have acquisition for anyone with style. ... Read more

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Fabulous Product
Beautiful fashion pictures! However, not as much text as expected. A great fashion picture book for adults.

ILLUSTRATING A LIFE MOST ARTFUL: ANDY WARHOL
These are the early illustrations from fashion magazines of the `50s, and they are just delightful. Shoes, fans, gloves and other glamorous necessities from the tastemakers of Vogue, Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar are full of wit, fun, style and a crazy cartoon-like kookiness that proves irresistible. The preface is written by Simon Doonan, the Creative Director of Barney's New York, who helps place the work squarely in historical perspective. While the drawings are clearly imbued with the unmistakable Warhol sense of fun,they also illustrate a very interesting relationship between what was commercial art and what was to become fine art. These drawings may have been originally done to illustrate articles and advertisements, but that strange, off-center sense of reality that Warhol later brought to his paintings and photographs is clearly present. And clearly still fashionable. ... Read more

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Business art is the step that comes after Art, Andy Warhol once observed, of his career trajectory; "I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist." In all of his work as an artist, filmmaker, director of the Factory, band manager, magazine publisher and television entrepreneur, Warhol willfully disrupted and dismantled the line between art and commerce, terminally collapsing the values of art at the midcentury by brazenly asserting that "Good business is the best art." Warhol began his career as a commercial designer, achieving commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and first published his art in popular magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the New Yorker; his naming of the his workplace as a "Factory" was an overt declaration of the new American art as a continuation of (Henry) Fordist assembly-line production. Andy Warhol Enterprises examines Warhol's complex and multifarious relationship to commerce in both his work and life, from his highly successful career as a commercial artist to his reign as a cultural tastemaker in the 1980s. The catalogue features a new essay by renowned scholar Thomas Crow and an interview with Vincent Fremont, one of Warhol's close associates, which further illuminate aspects of Warhol's critical engagement with the commercial market. ... Read more

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Excellent biography and early Warhola family history
More biographies on Andy Warhol have been written since his death in 1987 than when he was still alive. I have read many of them, and as I reread my past diary entries I am also rereading my book reviews. Without question the worst Warhol biography was Ultra Violet's rushed "tell-all" Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol, which I will surely reprint on the anniversary of the day I wrote it. The Life and Death of Andy Warhol by Victor Bockris, however, is certainly the best biography I have read on the Prince of Pop Art.

Bockris, like Ultra Violet, was a Warhol insider who worked closely with the artist. While Ultra Violet hung out among the druggies at The Factory and whored herself to reporters for any available inches of press ink, Bockris worked with Warhol on his book and television projects, as well as Interview magazine. The Life and Death of Andy Warhol goes further back than any Warhol biography I know, all the way back to Warhol's family history in Slavic Ruthenia. We learn about his parents, aunts and uncles and what immigrant life was like for Warhol's ancestors. Bockris interviews Andy Warhol's first teachers and his schoolmates, and it is these intimate interviews that make the book unique. Other biographers may interview only those in Warhol's contemporary circle of friends, whereas Bockris went further into the past and finally got some answers to questions that have left other biographies severely lacking. For example: why did Warhol's mother live with him? Was Warhol gay? Was he asexual? Why did he fear hospitals? Other biographies have given short and simple answers to these questions, but didn't have any depth in the historical explanation.

My only regret is that there were no colour photos, and none at all of his art. How can one publish a book about an artist, and not include photos of the works one is describing in the text? Maybe Bockris needed the rights to print photographs of Warhol's works. There were only a few black-and-white pictures, and they were either photos that every Warhol fan has seen before, or photos from Warhol's two brothers' private albums, which weren't published anywhere until now.

So far so good
First thing found this at a very affordable price. About half way through the writer keeps everything easy to follow. So far so good.

A Look at the Life of Andy Warhol
It would be difficult to compose a thorough biography of Andy Warhol.There are so many dimensions to the man's career that it alone could emcompass several hundred pages.Victor Bockris has done an excellent job of writing a concise version of Warhol's life story.

Bockris begins the book in the humble begins of the Warhola family.Andy is an almost insignificant little child who is often sick and mocked bt his peers.As a result, he becomes very attached to his mother.This bond lasts well into his life.

Andy Warhol was actually kicked out of art school for his poor performance before enrolling again after summer school.His art took time to catch on.His paintings, as diverse as they are in style and subject, gained him his fame.On the other hand, the films he produced were largely unsuccessful.While the stories behind his work seem concise, Bockris does an excellent job of recounting Warhol's career.

Bockris does an admirable job of capturing the social changes and scandals that affect Andy Warhol's life.Warhol's faint homosexuality is documented. While not being an overly sexual person, Warhol's affects on pop culture went so far to make homosexuality trendy around 1972.The day Andy Warhol was shot is discussed with photographs.The events of this day are told in a straight forward nature.Warhol's tragic death is also told through the sources at the hospital and the people closest to Andy.

The book is a bargain as the price it sells.For those wanting to learn more about this legendary artist, this book is ideal.

A Very Revealing Character Study!
I picked up this book, not expecting much and learned a lot of the life of Andy Warhol.

Being a person who met both Warhol and Solonis (who shot Andy Warhol), the book was probably more interesting to me than mostpeople. The book goes into detail about how, the public was being misleadby Warhol's veneer of simplicity in revealing how sensitive he actuallywas.

It explains about how Andy manipulated people and was as generous ashe was mean. I found this to be true in my own personal experience, knowingWarhol. He was very defensive, and could be quite mean, whenoffended.

The book also gives valuable insight in how Andy Warholmanipulated people. It was interesting knowing how he could beg and whinewhen he didn't get his way, and he didn't give up after many misfortunes. ... Read more

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The Question-and-Answer interview was one of Andy Warhol's favorite communication vehicles, so much so that he named his own magazine after the form. Yet, never before has anyone published a collection of interviews that Warhol himself gave. I'll Be Your Mirror contains more then thirty conversations revealing this unique and important artist. Each piece presents a different facet of the Sphinx-like Warhol's ever-evolving personality. Writer Kenneth Goldsmith provides context and provenance for each selection. Beginning in 1962 with a notorious interview in which Warhol literally begs the interviewer to put words into his mouth, the book covers Warhol's most important artistic period during the '60s. As Warhol shifts to filmmaking in the '70s, this collection explores his emergence as socialite, scene-maker, and trendsetter; his influential Interview magazine; and the Studio 54 scene. In the 80s, his support of young artists like Jean-Michel Basquait, his perspective on art history and the growing relationship to technology in his work are shown. Finally, his return to religious imagery and spirituality are available in an interview conducted just months before his death. Including photographs and previous unpublished interviews, this collage of Warhol showcases the artist's ability to manipulate, captivate, and enrich American culture. ... Read more

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America's 20th century Lao Tzu of Pop...
Unless you're some sort of Warhol scholar, you really have to like Andy Warhol a heck of a lot to read all the way through the interviews collected in "I'll be Your Mirror." You practically have to be a Warcaholic to appreciate the Pop Master's technique of speaking volumes while ostensibly saying nothing...sometimes even when he really is saying nothing!

Warhol turned the interview into another display of his enigmatic aesthetic. What's interesting in this book isn't so much what Warhol says, but how he doesnt say it. His irony is so sharp that the interviewer is often seemingly unaware that he's even been cut--or delivered in so deadpan and naive a manner that either it's missed, misinterpreted it, or Warhol's interlocutor can't even be sure that he's been put-down or put-on.

I think a lot of people feel the same about Warhol's art...or, until relatively recently, a lot of people used to feel that way. Is this guy putting us on, or what?

Collected from a variety of sources, the interviews in "I'll Be Your Mirror" are uneven in quality, necessarily reprinted (and repeated) from other sources, and, because they are, in part, a Warholian performance, Warhol's answers are often redundant. In fact, there isnt a whole lot new here that a reader of Warhol's "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol" won't have already encountered. The fun, I suppose, comes in watching Warhol play his fey, fickle game of linquistic peek-a-boo, always giving away a little less than what he's ultimately getting: publicity.

Pretending, by turns, to be ignorant, inarticulate, indolent, and indecisve, Warhol often comes off sounding like both Beavis and Butthead with his ever-ready, all-purpose, one-size-fits-all grab bag of answers suitable for any occasion (or question) . One has to appreciate the skill involved in not-answering questions, in evading the obvious, the pretentious, the sycophantic, the frivolous and the invasive to derive any entertainment in listening to Warhol "Yes," "no," "I don't know," "gee," "really?" his way through a lifetime's gauntlet of interview after interview.

Of course, one must also remember that as "uncooperative" Warhol is in these interviews, they remain interviews; they aren't interrogations. Warhol agreed to be interviewed...sort of like a samurai accepts a challenge. From these encounters, Warhol emerges victorious, for the most part, you sense he hardly broke a sweat.

Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you're an evasive and elusive a character as I am than you'll surely appreciate the disappearing act that Warhol pulls off in these interviews...not just the act itself, but how he manages to do it. Although you have to keep your eyes open, you can hardly blink, because when you do, he's gone.

If you'd like to learn this neat trick, whether you're a world-renowned artist or not, a socialite hobnobber or a grocery clerk, a celebrity trendsetter or a reclusive crank, you can hardly do better than study Warhol's performance in the book. For the rest of what makes Warhol important, you're better off going somewhere else.

Theater ... or Andy revealed?
Wouldn't it be nice to be so important as to warrant almost 400 pages of being interviewed ... which, for Warhol, are only a selection. I wonder how many people have been interviewed as much?

There's a wide variety of interviews here, from the monosyllabic to the raunchy to more or less conventional in form but intelligent in content(when discussing art with those who understand art well).

What's missing with Warhol when interviewing is that need to explain onself in great detail that seems typical of most of us when given the chance. Somehow, despite our different backgrounds, when interviewed, we all sound the same: the pattern of the self given the chance to own the stage. Warhol often seems comfortable with responses of one simple sentence or less, which requires more interviewer participation and increases the tempo of the interviews.

Warhol's sense of humor and desire for productivity (work, work, work) are apparent. No time to waste words.

To make these interviews seem somewhat more concrete, look on the Web for the BBC audios of Warhol, several 1-3 minute segments that allow you to hear him.

After reading these, I understand him perhaps a little more and he seems a great deal less remote and more likeable. I bought this along with "Andy Warhol 365 Takes" from the Warhol Museum staff: these two books complement each other well, this one focused more on the man and the other on his works. Despite his fame, he seems a greater artist than was at first apparent to me.

U'mm, Uh, Oh Gee, I guess, this book is just okay, yeah!
First off, you will buy this book because you are a fan of Warhol and frankly you should buy it because it contains a lot of great stuff.I was super excited when I opened this book because I get a kick out of the thought that Warhol was often gently mocking (well, taunting certainly) us with his obtuse and oblique responses to his media questioners.The problem with not actually being able to see Warhol give these interviews is that it is impossible to know how much actually came from his own lips and how much was created to fit the agenda of the person writing or giving the interview.For instance, whenever Warhol was with one of his co-conspirators he often allowed that person to interject an answer to a question on his behalf.Also, many of these interviews were actually composed to fit a particular world view.For instance, Mr. Malanga's interview of Warhol reads like something that Mr. Malanga wrote, probably with Andy's approval, and then submitted for print.This is okay, but the really great stuff in an Andy Warhol interview is what actually issues from Andy accompanied by all of his funny mannerisms and quirks.This sometimes does come through in a number of interviews contained in this book, particularly ones given to novices and young men but too often the interviews read flat and almost textbook like.I don't want to turn you off to this book because I really believe that it is a worthwhile read.I just don't want you to expect too much so that you won't be disappointed. ... Read more

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Book Description: Harry N Abrams Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1988. Soft Covers in Slipcase. Book Condition: Near Fine. Six near fine soft cover books in a slipcase (slipcase rubbed with edge wear and dings), very nice set. ... Read more

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On the occasion of what would have been Andy Warhol's eightieth birthday, in 2008, this exquisitely produced volume examines one essential but miraculously under-studied element of the artist's work: The shadow. Beginning with photographic still lifes of skulls and taxidermied animals, then moving on to male nudes, tabletops and table settings, celebrity portraits, gems, fruits and many amazing still lifes of hammers, sickles, shoes and other ordinary objects that presage Fischli & Weiss' Equilibres by several years, Shadows and Other Signs of Life concludes with Warhol's photographs of actual shadows and an outstanding selection of abstract silkscreens, stenciled works and piss paintings. Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at Paris' Galerie Chantal Crousel, this volume contains illuminating short texts--Anniversary Notes for Andy Warhol--by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. ... Read more

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If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. [...] it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know, you've really got something.--Andy Warhol
Perhaps no other artist from the second half of the 20th century is as familiar to the public as Andy Warhol--and his self-portraits can hardly be said to have played a lackluster role with regards to the artist's celebrity. U.S. postage stamp anyone? Occupying a position of central importance in his oeuvre, Warhol's self-portraits also occupy a consistent, long-running one. From the first self-images in gouache painted by 16-year-old Andrew Warhol in the mid-40s to the fright-wig series completed shortly before his death in February 1987, Andy Warhol continually used self-portraiture to reflect on his position and social status as an artist, performing a variety of roles in the process. Yet he never made use of the traditional topos of the artist's self-portrait; his fascination with transience and death is constantly present, as in his other works. Although a seemingly endless number of books have been published on Warhol's various work groups, this is the first monograph devoted exclusively to his self-portraits. The accompanying essays discuss different aspects of the theme and examine Warhol's self-portraits in the light of an expanded concept of the artist's self-portrait in the 20th century.

Edited by Dietmar Elger.~Essays by Robert Rosenblum and Roland Wäspe.

Hardcover, 10 x 10 in./120 pgs / 60 color and 20 b & w. ... Read more

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In 1975, Andy Warhol undertook a series of portraits of New York City transvestites, most of whom were recruited by Bob Colacello from a club called The Gilded Grape. The method for making these portraits followed Warhol's customary formula: a Polaroid portrait of the sitter was silkscreened onto a canvas, which was then embellished with synthetic polymer paint in a bright array of red, pinks, yellows and pastels. Warhol's transvestites are portrayed in a fairly classical fashion, neck-up, often at a three-quarter angle, and beckon at the viewer with a variety of expressions, from the plaintive to the coquettish to the triumphant. This beautifully produced monograph features 40 spot-varnished color reproductions of the Ladies and Gentlemen series, and reprints the Italian film-maker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini's fascinating and unusual take on Warhol and on the series. ... Read more

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This book illuminates Warhol’s personal connection and engagement with themes such as icons, consumer society, politics, religion, and the self, trying to reveal the autobiographical aspect, the artist ‘in first person’ behind the pictorial plane, the subjectivity behind the machine.The book features about 50 works by Andy Warhol. ... Read more

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From 1972 until his death in 1987, Andy Warhol worked prodigiously on a variety of projects. Sublime examples of his work from this period are gathered in this elegantly designed collection which includes essays on the artist and interviews with him.

This collection of paintings, photographs, prints, video stills, and interviews from the last fifteen years of Warhol’s career are presented in a four-volume slip-cased set. Along with his best known later works, which include his Oxidations, Camouflage, and Rorschachs, this set contains stills from Warhol’s forays into filmmaking, including L’Amour, Women in Revolt and Heat. Contact sheets from his work in photography offer an intimate glimpse of the glittering world of 1980’s New York. The artist’s books and renowned conversations, including his final interview with Paul Taylor, round out this superb exploration of Warhol’s last years.

vol. I: essays
vol. II: paintings
vol. III: photos/films/videos/books
vol. IV: interviews ... Read more

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Beautiful survey of Warhol's post-60s work
This set--catalogue for an exhibition currently traveling through Europe--is a nice survey of Warhol's underrated later work, including material not covered in any of the big retrospective volumes.The first part covers (mostly) paintings and (a few) wallpaper designs, starting with the ubiquitous "Mao" series and ending with the "Last Supper" series.In between, we get some of Warhol's most beautiful and enigmatic work (including the "Hammer and Sickles", a range of self portraits, the fairly well-known "Shadow", "Oxidation" and "Camouflage" paintings, as well as lesser-known things like the truly wonderful "Yarn" paintings).This is an exhibition catalogue, and as such only includes a few paintings from each series--we'll have to wait for the final volumes of the Warhol Catalogue Raisonne for the full experience.The paintings are reproduced nicely, with folding plates for the larger work and sometimes closeup details.The second partcovers photography, books, video and movies, along with some samples from Warhol's "Interview" magazine.The photography section is especially fun, as it includes contact sheets from Warhol's continual documentation of the world around him, sometimes juxtaposed with appropriate excerpts from his diaries.The final part consists on interviews with Warhol and essays about him, the former fun, the latter a mixed bag.

The format of the set is sharp: three paperbound volumes (not four as the amazon.com description says) with contrasting spines (paper, cloth and glue) housed in a sturdy slipcase with a luscious closeup reproduction of one of Warhol's "Oxidation" paintings.The individual paperbacks seem rather flimsy, my only concern about this handsome set. ... Read more

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Learn about Andy Warhol with iMinds insightful knowledge series.
Andy Warhol came to public attention as one of the leading lights of the Pop Art movement of the 1960’s. Since then his art and legacy have polarised art critics and the public alike. This thin, pale, asexual man in a silver wig has been described as both a genius and a charlatan. His art, and maybe more importantly his approach to art, have taken him out of the galleries and museums into the public arena. Love or loath his work most agree that he broke down the divide between high art and mass culture.

Crucial to Warhol is this paradox: As an artist who approached art from its commercial perspective he pointed out how art is debased by money.

iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information segmentsto whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind. ... Read more

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This catalog accompanying an exciting new exhibition reveals
the myriad ways Warhol immersed himself in the music of his
time. Tracing back to Warhol s introduction to music through
the musical comedies, songs, and soundtracks of his youth,
the book opens with Warhol s portraits of the great films stars
of his childhood. As the fascinating essays collected in this
volume discuss, Warhol s renowned portraits of pop music
icons such as Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, and Grace Jones
are just one manifestation of his interest in music. Warhol
collaborated with choreographer Merce Cunningham, served
as producer for the Velvet Underground, incorporated music
into his films, produced video-clips, designed dozens of record
albums, filmed live concerts, and created multimedia spectacles.
Although never a musician himself, Warhol appropriated the
imagery of a pop icon for some of his most arresting and
haunting self portraits. Designed to echo the music industry s
most recognizable emblem the album cover this dynamic
book includes more than 350 illustrations, offering a refreshing
new way to appreciate the talent and evolution of an artist
who mirrored society s ever-changing tastes and interests. ... Read more

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More More More!!!
Yes! I want Andy Warhol Giant-Sized, but this is probably the next best thing!A great big book, covered in silver mylar - 10x10, it's also too heavy to lug around.Yet I was thrilled to find something with LARGE LUSH PRINTS of Andy's work.The author gives a full and thorough background on Andy's involvement in the commercial element of illustrating for the music industry.It's all very good.The best part is, of course, the paintings and prints!

Scaling through Warhol at bookstores and libraries may only give you poor copies of these same images...Which is not how they were meant to be seen.To really appreciate the graphic color and idiosyncrasy of Warhol's work, it has to be BIG.The multiple images of Elvis are like a multiple... (YOU know!)

Warhol was such a versatile creator! It's amazing to see the shifts he discovered here, working through his different styles of presentation.This book shows him at the height of his fun...Working with celebrities in the music business, how his own business evolved from doing simple line drawings for albums in the 50's, to the silkscreens of Judy Garland and Liza Minelli; a full chapter on his sponsoring of the Velvet Underground, and on to individuals (Michael Jackson and Prince) and groups like the Rolling Stones.

Hmmm... I'm disappointed to think somehow Jim Morrison and David Bowie were overlooked by Warhol.I don't understand how that happened.Here you will see lots of photos of Jagger feigning to be Morrison; ironic.Something comes through in the paintings of Jagger, using the same familiar poses we know from Morrison's photos...Only there is something not-so-sexy here. Jagger comes across as looking almost desperate, somewhat menacing and manipulative. Morrison would have been a much better subject by far!But that is by no means the fault of the artist!I think Warhol captured Jagger's soul, and seeing his paintings cannot help one from making these contrasts.

This book also includes cover illustrations for Andy's magazine, INTERVIEW.These are also dazzling - duo images of Debbie Harry, the way the colors are layered in the many various double portraits are both breathtaking and polarizing.The cover paintings (rarely seen) of adorable Michael Jackson in a suit, a mystical jewel-clad Cyndi Lauper... Plus, Warhol managed to capture Madonna's real personality in 1985.Yes, in real life her eyes are GREEN.And here she looks very Wicked - like the "Wicked" Wicked Witch - with swooping purple eyebrows and a big mole under her snooty nose.

Amazing to say the least!
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Pop artist Andy Warhol is a source of continuing fascination and visual excitement. While he first worked as an illustrator, he grew most famous for appropriating images from popular culture and incorporating them into his paintings and silkscreen prints. Abrams' 2011 Warhol engagement calendar features more than fifty full-colour images from the 1950s through the 1980s. It highlights the artist's most fabulous and recognizable works of art along with a rich and rare selection of drawings, photographs, illustrations, and quotations. ... Read more

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Christophe von Hohenberg stumbled upon the beginnings of Andy Warhol’s Memorial Service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on April 1, 1987. Now published for the first time on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Pop legend’s death, von Hohenberg’s lens captured a veritable time capsule of the social swirl of the era that Warhol had such a hand in shaping.

Andy Warhol was the centrifuge of an artistic and social set that remixed the cocktail of café society to include everything from porn stars and princes, pop music stars and international society figures, movie stars and drag queens, and the dynamic cast of dozens of the eras major figures (many now deceased) that attended the memorial service of April 1, 1987. In addition to speakers Yoko Ono and Picasso biographer John Richardson, attendants included such major artists as David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Francesco Clemente and Julian Schnabel. Other personalities included Debbie Harry, Diane von Furstenberg, Bianca Jagger, Halston, Liza Minnelli, Paloma Picasso, George Plimpton, Ahmet Ertegun, Dominick Dunne, Henry Geldzahler, Claus von Bulow, Leo Castelli, Holly Solomon, Steven Sprouse and many others. The book is a vibrant record of one of the most exciting eras in New York’s cultural life from the swinging sixties through the increasingly edgy 1970s and up to the heady 1980s that was started in the haze of Studio 54 and ended with the ravages of AIDS. Andy Warhol: The Day The Factory Died is a fitting tribute to the Pop master whose seemingly soulless art was frequently tinged with the pathos of death. ... Read more

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Great Layout
I have known the author/photographer and his family for many years and was amazed at the quality of this projetc. Warhol would have liked it. I hope there are not too many younger people who are not aware of what all this means (Warhol) it shaped a lot of things that today we take for granted.

BRILLIANT BOOK!
A long awaited tome, this is a really quite perfect little time capsule. Von Hohenberg captured the elite of NYC at Andy Warhol's last "happening" -- his memorial service -- and the letters that each famous person wrote are an excellent complement to the photos.
It is beautifully presented -- very much like a hip little Smythson diary chroniclingthe era. Usually, a book about a memorial service does not grab me as a must-have, but this one is!
Fun to read, fun to look at --- fashion, New York society, the art world -- it's all there in this elegantly crafted book from one of my favorite fine art photographers.

Mark Robinow Art Dealer
The book is produced beautifully and has some very strong images. The idea and the whole concept of the book combining images with letters of Warhol friends writing about him is unique. A must have for all art and photography lovers.

Massive
An 80's time capsule wrapped inside a Warhol designed frontspiece inside a bible... Andy would be proud.Besides the photography (printing seems meticulous), there are letters to Andy from various media figures and insightful essays.If you think about modern art at all, you should own this book. ... Read more

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From Fra Angelico to Francisco Zurbaran, from the masters of the Renaissance to the abstract expressionists, this lavishly illustrated volume showcases the most influential Western artists from 800 years of art history, including:

• Michelangelo
• Salvador Dali
• Mary Cassatt
• Edgar Degas
• Pablo Picasso ... Read more

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100 Great Artists: A Visual Journey from Fra Angelico to Andy Warhol
This is a lovely hardback book, a worthwhile addition to coffee-table collections as well as one artists will treasure.

It's an easy entertaining read
It's a very good read giving you an idea of many artists, very easy to read, I usually have a look to it before sleeping. And a very good thing about it is that it gives you an idea of the artists' personal and social lives not just their art style and ... For example, I was quite touched by Van Gaug's life story. For people who are just interested in arts and want to begin knowing artists, I definitely recommend it.

A personal selection of 100 masters
This album is a personal selection of one- hundred great artists from Fra Angelico to Warhol. The subtitle suggests that the artists will be presented in chrnological order but they are in fact presented alphabetically. One full page illustration of apainting is selected for each artist. There is short accompanying material about the artist and the work, with another small photo on the opposite page. The selection of the artists, I found a bit eccentric with there being a number of names who are not ordinarily considered part of the first- rank.
This is not an outstanding album but of course many of the illustrations are of great works, and can truly hold the attention and interest. ... Read more

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Tracing Warhol's origins as the sickly child of Ruthenian immigrants in working-class Pittsburgh to his transformation into New York's dark prince of Pop and finally into the world's most successful 'business artist', "Andy Warhol "Giant" Size" provides an appropriately larger-than-life look at the celebrated artist's career. Cultural critic Dave Hickey provides a compelling essay on Warhol's geek-to-guru evolution while chapter openers by Warhol friends and insiders give special insight into the way the enigmatic artist led his life and made his art. More than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival material, documentary photography, and artwork not only provide a full picture of the artist's life but a telling look at late twentieth-century popular culture. Warhol's little-explored early career as a successful commercial illustrator and designer, his importance as a co-creator of the Pop movement, his midcareer switch to filmmaker and manager of the Velvet Underground, his founding of Interview magazine, and his bid for the hearts and pocketbooks of the high-flying glitterati are shown throughout this stunning new volume. ... Read more

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Terrific Picture Book
Lots of stories. A great deal. A really neat visual insight into the world of Andy Warhol. Good price too.

ohhhh!!!
this review comes from a true warhol junkie. i drove five hours to pittsburgh once just to see one of his films(and don't regret a minute or a penny of it). i've read quite a few books on andy and was excited to see this one and at a much cheaper price than when it first came out. i haven't looked at it all yet, just purchased today but i have to say i was really expecting just a little bit more than what i've seen so far. but, what i've seen has been great. i guess it's the lack of much text that really seems a real drawback to me, but in lieu of that it offers very much as far as the visual aspects. most, if not all, of his major works are represented but one has to have a little more cultural insight to realy comprehend what's going on here. like for instance, who are all these other people and what's going on with them. i, as an insider of sorts, know so it's cool for me, but i'm sorry for anyone else who doesn't know the whole story. so, to be brief, this is a cool book with tons of artwork reproduced and gads of photos but is probably not a good beginning book for the uninitiated. it's more of a companion piece to fill in the blanks left by the other works. as a starter for the warhol cult prospective initiate i would highly recommend "popism" by warhol and pat hackett and for a more complete story than that, including tons of artwork and photos, "warhol" by david bourdain. the latter tells a more complete story since "popism" leaves off in the 60's(albeit andy's halcyon days). those two are indispensable. this one is just a bonus but hey, it's a warhol book so not bad at all. campbell's soup forever!

Giant Warhol For Less Than Half the Price!
This is the "less expensive" version of 2006s //Andy Warhol Giant Size// originally published at $125.00. For less than half price, you can still get the entirety of the original edition and still in hardcover. this is an overview of Warhol's life, told through thousands of images, from his own pictures and art, to the pieces of his daily life that he never threw out. Even being the "little" version of the original, it still tops the scale at eight pounds, so not something you'll through in your bag to read on the way to work. There are a number of essays beginning each section, and quotes from Warhol are salted throughout. For those Warhol fans that passed on the original, this should be a must have. It is expertly packaged and organized, and will keep one busy for hours just flipping the pages and exploring the influences on Warhol, and the influences he had on the world. ... Read more

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Andy Warhol is usually remembered as the artist who said that he wanted to be a machine, and that no one need ever look further than the surface when evaluating him or his art. Arguing against this carefully crafted pop image, Reva Wolf shows that Warhol was in fact deeply emotionally engaged with the people around him and that this was reflected in his art.

Wolf investigates the underground culture of poets, artists, and filmmakers who interacted with Warhol regularly. She claims that Warhol understood the literary imagination of his generation and that recognizing Warhol's literary activities is essential to understanding his art. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, including interviews, personal and public archives, tape recordings, documentary photographs, and works of art, Wolf offers dramatic evidence that Warhol's interactions with writers functioned like an extended conversation and details how this process impacted his work. This highly original and fascinating study gives us fresh insight into Warhol's art as practice and reformulates the myth that surrounds this popular American artist. ... Read more

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Warhol and writers
Warhol is often portrayed in films and literature as a superficial, aloof, overtly homosexual artist.What is often overlooked is that Warhol was an intellectual.Reva Wolf does a wonderful job pointing this key factor out to the reader. Warhol was associated with some of the world's greatest writers.People like Kerouac and Dylan came to Warhol for a reason; Warhol offered them a world that was worth writing about. Wolf delves into Warhol and his relations with various writers.The factory scene is covered in that great detail is given to Gerard Malanga (who was often viewed as Warhol's sole intellectual).Gerard was an aspiring poet (much like many at The Factory) and Warhol was often spotted at various "happenings" listening to the current spill of contemporary poetry in the sixties. There are relatively few flaws in comparison to the overall book.Wolf provides the reader with several rare photographs.The clarity of some of them is slightly weak.Yet, the layout of the book is modern and a few of the photos catch Warhol fairly intimately. The entire book provides the reader with an intellectual perspective to viewing the life of Andy Warhol.Wolf proves that Warhol was more than his facade by addressing the gossip and writings that surrounded Warhol.Wolf does not attempt to explain the enigma which is Warhol, but merely gives a new angle in which to view.Anyone interested in Warhol and the intelligencia of the sixties must read this book.Wolf's book is a fabulous companion to The Andy Warhol Diaries and Popism. ... Read more