тАЬIN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY will be world famous for 15 minutes.тАЭ
The CampbellтАЩs Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15 minutes he predicted for everyone else. His very name is synonymous with the 1960s American art movement known as Pop.
But WarholтАЩs oeuvre was the sum of many parts. He not only produced iconic art that blended high and popular culture; he also made controversial films, starring his entourage of the beautiful and outrageous; he launched Interview, a slick magazine that continues to sell today; and he reveled in leading the vanguard of New YorkтАЩs hipster lifestyle. The Factory, WarholтАЩs studio and den of social happenings, was the place to be.
Who would have predicted that this eccentric boy, the Pittsburgh-bred son of Eastern European immigrants, would catapult himself into media superstardom? WarholтАЩs rise, from poverty to wealth, from obscurity to status as a Pop icon, is an absorbing taleтАФone in which the American dream of fame and fortune is played out in all of its success and its excess. No artist of the late 20th century took the pulse of his timeтАФand oursтАФbetter than Andy Warhol.
Praise for Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist:
тАЬThis outstanding, well-researched biography is fascinating reading.тАЭтАФSchool Library Journal, Starred
тАЬReaders will see not just the man but also the paintings anew.тАЭтАФThe Bulletin, Starred
тАЬAn exceptional biography that reveals the humanity behind the myth.тАЭтАФBooklist, Starred
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