The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen.
Blake Gopnik is one of North America's leading arts writers, has served as art and design critic at Newsweek and as chief art critic at the Washington Post and Canada's Globe and Mail. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and has a PhD in art history from Oxford University.
John Lennon and I once hid from Andy in a closet at the
Sherry-Netherland hotel. I wish I'd known him better. This
fantastic new biography makes me feel that I do. It really reveals
the man - and the genius - under that silver wig.
*Elton John*
Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of
this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy
as it is biography
*Guardian*
A major biography based on hundreds of interviews, which considers
the artist as a symbol of gay achievement and explodes the myth of
his asexuality.
*Guardian*
Monumental... rollicking... a formidable achievement
*The Telegraph*
Gripping
*The Daily Mail*
Full of irresistible titbits...Gopnik leaves us little doubt of the
significance of Warhol at his best: the links between serial
production in his Pop paintings and minimal avant-garde music; the
Death & Disaster series identifying tragedy as a new form of mass
entertainment; voyeuristic films occluding the line between art and
life; portraits that presented America's elite like a range of
luxury goods. To borrow a favourite Warholism: Wow.
*i newspaper*
Gopnik's exhaustive but stylishly written and entertaining account
is Warholian in the best sense-raptly engaged, colorful,
open-minded, and slyly ironic. ("He had become his own Duchampian
urinal, worth looking at only because the artist in him had said he
was.") Warhol fans and pop art enthusiasts alike will find this an
endlessly engrossing portrait
*Publisher's Weekly*
Serves up fresh details about almost every aspect of Warhol's life
in an immensely enjoyable book that blends snappy writing with
careful exegeses of the artist's influences and techniques...a
fascinating, major work that will spark endless debates.
*Kirkus Reviews*
Blake Gopnik's incisive, richly detailed bio puts you in Andy's
inner circle and sanctum from beginning to end. It breaks down how,
for decades, Andy strategically defined the pop culture zeitgeist
as the world's most renowned artist
*Fab 5 Freddy, graffiti and hip-hop pioneer*
An excellent inside view of Andy's life, personality, and
genius.
*Diane von Furstenberg*
Art and art history jumped the tracks with Andy Warhol. Blake
Gopnik's lucid account of the artist and the wild times puts all
that back on track again. An eye-opening biography that reads like
a potboiler
*Jerry Saltz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism*
Fabulously joyful... Gopnik seemingly had access to every doodle,
soup tin and erotic snap, not to mention bus ticket and tax return,
that the artist ever produced... Gopnik has such a strong sense of
the design and patterns of his subject's life that the 976 pages
seem if anything too few. For Gopnik, Warhol is the significant
figure of the 20th century, surpassing even Picasso. It's a big
claim, but the veteran critic makes a compelling case, arguing that
Warhol collapsed and cleared the binaries -
representation/abstraction, high/low and even art/not art - that
every previous artist had been obliged to wrangle with.
*Guardian Books of the Year*
Warhol was important and Gopnik is an assiduous and sometimes
meditative historian of his strange life. Unlike the artist's taste
for ready-made consumables, the book is the result of years
scouring the 100,000 documents in the Warhol archive
*The Times Best Books of the Year*
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