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02246aam a2200289 i 4500 001 28F31184B18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220401010114 008 210530s2021 nyua 000 0beng d 020 $a 9780062298423 020 $a 0062298429 040 $a TLC $e ng $c TLC $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 04 $a N6537.W28 $b G67 2021 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Gopnik, Blake, $e author. 245 10 $a Warhol / $c Blake Gopnik. 250 $a First Ecco paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Ecco Press,am imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 961 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen. Andy Warhol presented himself as being as shallow as critics accused his famous Campbell's Soup can paintings of being. His public persona was droll; he claimed that he silkscreened because it was easier than painting, and that everyone would have fifteen minutes of fame in the future. But who was Andy Warhol really, and how did he come to revolutionise our visual world forever? From his impoverished childhood as the son of Slovak immigrants in 1930s Pittsburgh, to finding commercial success as an advertising illustrator, to his painstaking pivot into fine art to becoming one of the first people to bring a queer aesthetic out into the open; Warhol shows us how deliberately Andy Warhol reflected the changing winds of commercialism, capitalism and celebrity in the 1960s that still underpin our world today. Behind the glamourous Factory setting of superstars, drag queens, musicians and high-society drop-outs, there was a complex man who lived with his mother until the day he died; whose asexual persona obscured a man who was openly gay during a time of great prejudice; who rubbed shoulders with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lou Reed and Susan Sontag but grappled with crippling lifelong insecurity. 600 10 $a Warhol, Andy, $d 1928-1987 $v Biography. 650 0 $a Artists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Artists. 941 $a 1 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611021833.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=28F31184B18111ECB5BF500951ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search