Warhol

Author:   Graham Halstead ,  Blake Gopnik
Publisher:   HarperCollins
ISBN:  

9781094119571


Publication Date:   28 April 2020
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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"The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his--or any--age. To this day, mention the name ""Andy Warhol"" to almost anyone and you'll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol's name and dominated the public's image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that. In Warhol, esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. ""The meanings of his art depend on the way he lived and who he was,"" as Gopnik writes. ""That's why the details of his biography matter more than for almost any cultural figure,"" from his working-class Pittsburgh upbringing as the child of immigrants to his early career in commercial art to his total immersion in the ""performance"" of being an artist, accompanied by global fame and stardom--and his attempted assassination. The extent and range of Warhol's success, and his deliberate attempts to thwart his biographers, means that it hasn't been easy to put together an accurate or complete image of him. But in this biography, unprecedented in its scope and detail as well as in its access to Warhol's archives, Gopnik brings to life a figure who continues to fascinate because of his contradictions--he was known as sweet and caring to his loved ones but also a coldhearted manipulator; a deep-thinking avant-gardist but also a true lover of schlock and kitsch; a faithful churchgoer but also an eager sinner, skeptic, and cynic. Wide-ranging and immersive, Warhol gives us the most robust and intricate picture to date of a man and an artist who consistently defied easy categorization and whose life and work continue to profoundly affect our culture and society today."

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Author:   Graham Halstead ,  Blake Gopnik
Publisher:   HarperCollins
Imprint:   HarperCollins
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 17.30cm
Weight:   0.091kg
ISBN:  

9781094119571


ISBN 10:   1094119571
Publication Date:   28 April 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"""I wish I'd known [Andy Warhol] 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"""


I wish I'd known [Andy Warhol] 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


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Graham Halstead, an Earphones Award and Audie Award-winning narrator, is a professionally trained actor and voice artist. As an actor, he has worked internationally in Edinburgh and London, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His youthful, easy-flowing voice can be heard on television and radio voicing spots for Airborne and Allegra. Blake Gopnik, 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. In 2017, he was a Cullman Center Fellow in residence at the New York Public Library, and in 2015 he held a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at City University of New York. He has a PhD in art history from Oxford University and is a regular contributor to the New York Times.

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