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Review: Was Andy Warhol a saint or scourge, genius or dolt? A new biography befits a great life
Andy Warhol, circa 1960, had a problem. Thanks to his success as a commercial artist, he had built up an extravagant lifestyle. He owned an angel-blue Upper East Side townhouse and the tastes to match, but he was no longer winning the big contracts.
Imagine a semi-closeted gay man in New York City logging hours for The Man during the day while working quietly, steadily, at night, trying to create the next vanguard of American painting. You’re actually imagining Jasper Johns or Robert Rauschenberg. Warhol wanted to be that person, desperately, but in his off hours he’d been making negligible drawings.
Art, circa 1960, also had a problem. How do you move painting away from abstraction while also moving it forward? Pop artists — Johns, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist — solved this problem by becoming landscape painters. The American landscape, however, was no longer made up of trees and cows lowing plangently at dusk. It was Dick Tracy, roadside billboards and packaged goods.
With his Campbell’s Soup can paintings, exhibited in Los Angeles in 1962, Warhol was not pioneering anything new. He was merely upping the ante. More than Johns or Lichtenstein, Warhol concealed his own expres
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Warhol (book)
2020 biography by Blake Gopnik
Cover of first edition (Ecco) | |
| Author | Blake Gopnik |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Graham Halstead |
| Working title | Warhol: A Life as Art[2] |
| Cover artist | Barton Silverman (photo) Allison Saltzman (design) |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Andy Warhol |
| Publisher | Ecco (US) Allen Lane (UK) |
Publication date | March 5, 2020 (UK) April 28, 2020 (US) |
| Publication place | United States United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 976 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-229839-3 (US hardcover) 978-0-241-00338-1 (UK hardcover) |
| Website | warholiana.com |
Warhol (or Warhol: A Life as Art) is a 2020 biography of American artist Andy Warhol written by art critic Blake Gopnik. It was published by Allen Lane in the UK and Ecco in the US. At 976 pages in length, it has been marketed as the definitive biography of Warhol.[3]Waldemar Januszczak of The Sunday Times wrote that "it is impossible to imagine anyone finding out much more about Andy than is recorded here. In that sense it's definitive."[4]
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