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Title: Warhol by Victor Bockris ISBN: 0-306-80795-5 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Invaluable
Comment: The first half of this book is invaluable for the intimate infomation that it gives on Andy Warhol's early years. It is very sensitively written and thoroughly engaging, though the latter years are sort of run through at the speed of sound. That would be the only criticsm I have of this book but you can flesh out the facts (from Andy's view) by getting a copy of the Andy Warhol Diaries. Otherwise it's a really great book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good early biography of Warhol
Comment: Although this Warhol biography was only written two years after his death, it does contain much interesting marterial about the man. Primarily focusing on his pop-art peak in the 1960's and his stint in moviemaking, the book gives little details about the final decade about Warhol's life. Regardless, this book will give you much insight into the man, as well as the groupies and various hangers-on who always accompanied Warhol.
Rating: 3
Summary: Warhol Primer
Comment: As a huge fan of this fascinating man who blured the line between art and commerce, I was looking for a well written book
thicker than a brick that would reveal once and for all the mystery that is Andy Warhol. Im still looking, the definitive Warhol bio is yet to be written it seems, but in the meantime I'll settle for this Bockris book which is a sound overall portrait of the artist and his life. Starting from his poverty and illness stricken childhood in an industrial town in Pennsylvania the author breezily tours the reader through his
college life, and his subsequent move to New York to become a highly successful (and paid) graphic artist, before establishing himself as one of the founding pioneers of pop art. From there we take rollercoaster ride through his film making years at the Factory, his subsequent shooting, and the time he spent as a socialite and portait artist in the last two decades of his life. Some light is shed on the issues concerning Andy's sexuality, Catholicism, monophobia, work ethic, short lived
intimate relationships, shopoholism, and his seemingly aloof public persona.
Though Bockris rightly bestows more pages to Warhols peak years as an artist in the sixties, he skims the later decades of his life. As with his Lou Reed biography, Bockris has a tendency to demonize his subjects towards the final chapters of his works. Try as his he might here, his weakly supported insinuations of Warhol as a cold and manipulative character are more a reflection on the authors own
feelings of insecurity, rather than their being any intrinsic truth in the matter. There is a middle way between sycophantism and character debasement, and Bockris obviously hasn't found it. It's adequately written, albeit unimaginatively, and it takes real effort on part of the reader to stop turning the pages. As it stands, a fine Warhol primer, but for those with an inquiring mind, this book will probably raise more questions than it answers.
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Title: The Andy Warhol Diaries by Pat Hackett, Andy Warhol ISBN: 0446391387 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title:The Life & Times of Andy Warhol - Superstar ASIN: B000092T3B Publisher: Sony Music (Video) Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.49 |
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Title: Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein, George Plimpton ISBN: 0802134106 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol ISBN: 0156717204 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1977 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up by Bob Colacello ISBN: 0815410085 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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