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Title: POPism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett ISBN: 0-15-672960-1 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Coolest Book!
Comment: This engaging and fast-moving book chronicles the incredible rise of 60's pop culture and it's devastating conlusion as the key mover of the New York Pop art scene describes in ironic, humourous and incredibly sad detail. There are lots of bodies in the wake of Warhol's rise to American iconography. It's facinating and incredible. Pat Hackett has to be one of the most talented writers around to have been able to compile Andy's story in such a way that it's only his authentic voice that you hear as you read any of the books that she collaborated on. It's well worth the price of admission!
Rating: 4
Summary: Poptastic
Comment: With some 300 pages of prime slice Warholian gossip this book serves as an indespensible guide to the New York "Pop" scene and the Factory life of the sixties. Though written with aegis of co author Bob Hackett the essence of Andy- detached, voyeuristic, amoral/asexual, and humourous in his own dryly monosyllabic way- shines through on every page. Mildly autobiographical, thoroughly entertaining, and like the subject it describes; utterly disposable, this book is indescribaly essential reading material for the true Warhola fanatic. Yum.
Rating: 4
Summary: the king of pop
Comment: well, this book was actually written by warhol (and some other discarded somebody else) and is a year-by-year account of all the significant things that went on in andy's life from 1960-1969. 60-69 were by far the most wild and experimental years of both POP art and in the life of andy warhol...it marks both the BEGINNING of POP art and of andy as we know him. this book is an incredibly easy read and flows like a gossipy telephone conversation. there are sparks of cleverness and quips and fun anecdotes complete with name-dropping and mod-theatrics hey-day nostalgia. however, by the end of the book, one is left somewhat unsatisfied, in that andy, in all his aloofness and sphinxism, actually reveals not much of his inner self and, when he seems to, one might applaud the revelation and beg for more, only to get one piece of gossip after the other. i think, however, the book is still quite enjoyable despite its lack of insight, revelation and overt journal quality. but, POP is not about insight, revelation or even aestheticism; one gets a true sense of andy and POPism in immersing oneself in andy's bird's eye descriptions of each "happening" and hearsay. overall, the wink-on-the-sly tone of the book and its phone-gossip detail gives one a comforting but disingenuous feeling of being included in a snobby girl's clique. i would recommend this book to anyone looking for a little fun and just wants to read up on exactly what happened during the POP revolution from the guy who let the cat out of the bag.
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Title: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol ISBN: 0156717204 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 April, 1977 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A: A Novel by Andy Warhol ISBN: 0802135536 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Andy Warhol Diaries by Pat Hackett ISBN: 0446391387 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up by Bob Colacello ISBN: 0815410085 Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory by Mary Woronov ISBN: 1852427191 Publisher: Serpent's Tail Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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