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WARHOL $23 95 CAN The Biography by Victor Bockris "Victor Bockris is a brilliant young writer. ... He types like Van Cliburn plays the piano. He's always tape recording and taking pictures. I can't keep up with him." -Andy Warhol "The best so far in an encroaching flood of Warholiana. . . . The one to read for knowledge of Warhol the man." -Peter Schjeldahl, New York Times Book Review "[A] great subject, depicted with elegance and aptness. . . . [Bockris] paints a canvas, nearly a Bosch but partly a Hopper, of Warhol's tough immigrant upbringing and of his slightly mad, strong-willed mother. . . . One of Bockris's finest achievements is to apply the gloss of Warhol's homosexuality to his life story, without sententiousness or falsé speculation. Thus, the man who said 'I want to be a machine' emerges as a normál humán, perplexed and anguished by the nature of love, and finding in art somé solace for the pain he felt. ... A biography which can hold so true a mirror to such a... Tovább

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WARHOL $23 95 CAN The Biography by Victor Bockris "Victor Bockris is a brilliant young writer. ... He types like Van Cliburn plays the piano. He's always tape recording and taking pictures. I can't keep up with him." -Andy Warhol "The best so far in an encroaching flood of Warholiana. . . . The one to read for knowledge of Warhol the man." -Peter Schjeldahl, New York Times Book Review "[A] great subject, depicted with elegance and aptness. . . . [Bockris] paints a canvas, nearly a Bosch but partly a Hopper, of Warhol's tough immigrant upbringing and of his slightly mad, strong-willed mother. . . . One of Bockris's finest achievements is to apply the gloss of Warhol's homosexuality to his life story, without sententiousness or falsé speculation. Thus, the man who said 'I want to be a machine' emerges as a normál humán, perplexed and anguished by the nature of love, and finding in art somé solace for the pain he felt. ... A biography which can hold so true a mirror to such a many-faceted personality is invaluable." -New Statesman Artist, filmmaker, writer, rock producer, and publisher, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) transformed how we view and value our lives and world. As the leading exponent of Pop Art, he used his canvasses of dollár bilis, soup cans, disasters, and celebrities to erase the distinction between high and popular culture. His spectacular career shaped and encompassed the underground scene of drugs, sex, and punk rock as well as the equally deviant worlds of big business, politics, show business, and high society. Victor Bockris was Warhol's friend and worked at his famous Factory. Based on the author's intimate knowledge and interviews with family, friends, lovers, business associates, and enemies, this definitive and only biography reveals the complex and controversial life of.the single most important artist of the twentieth century. Victor Bockris, the internationally acclaimed histórián of the New York underground, is the author of Trarisformer: The Lou Reed Story (available from Da Capo Press), Keith Richards, Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story, and others. He is currently assisting John Cale with his autobiography and writing a biography of Patti Smith. Vissza