Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
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Review "Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune" [offers] a penetrating examination of its subject's deep-seated obsession, from childhood onward, with celebrity and publicity that he developed from precocious juvenilia - tracings of movie-star advertising endorsements and the like - to the mesmerizing silk-screened images he created in the early Sixties of megastars such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Elvis Presley, after he abandoned his highly lucrative practise as one of New York's most-sought-after commercial artists to pursue the far less certain path of a high style painter. (Martin Filler The New York Review of Books) Read more
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