POPism - The Warhol '60s

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rA vivid re-creation of a great time to live and a great time tO die/' -Martin Scorsese A cultural storm swept through the 1960s-Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, "happenings," underground movies, the British invasion-and at its center sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Warhol knew everybody-from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens-and everybody knew Andy. Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is where Warhol, in the same detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, telis it all-the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution. And no one escapes his nótice: the famous of the art world, the infamous of the drug culture, rising stars, and fading stars are all on display here. But it is Warhol who has the final word. It is as absorbing as the best telephone gossip, funny yet full of insights." -Christopher Isherwood POPism reads like a növel..'.. Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone... Tovább

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rA vivid re-creation of a great time to live and a great time tO die/' -Martin Scorsese A cultural storm swept through the 1960s-Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, "happenings," underground movies, the British invasion-and at its center sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Warhol knew everybody-from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens-and everybody knew Andy. Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is where Warhol, in the same detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, telis it all-the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution. And no one escapes his nótice: the famous of the art world, the infamous of the drug culture, rising stars, and fading stars are all on display here. But it is Warhol who has the final word. It is as absorbing as the best telephone gossip, funny yet full of insights." -Christopher Isherwood POPism reads like a növel..'.. Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he deSCribes/, -Calvin Tomkins, NewYorker Andy Warhol, a painter and graphic artist, alsó pro duced a significant body of film work, including his famous Chelsea Girls. Equally weil known in the late sixties and early seventies as resident host at his stúdió, the Factory, Warhol died in ;NewYork in 1987. Alsó available from Harcourt Brace & Company in a Harvest paperback edition: THE Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), by Andy Warhol . Vissza