[A] fascinating study of Warhol’s rise from commercial artist to the most celebrated painter and filmmaker in 1960s America.” — Richard Dorment, New York Review of Books
“[Draws] for the first time on full use of the archives of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. . . . [A] crazy, amazing, compelling story. This book does it justice.” — Maria Puente, USA Today
“An excellent book, a work of great clarity and concision that makes Warhol (and rock critics) feel fresh again.” — Deborah Solomon, New York Times Book Review
“Illuminating.” — Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times
“Riveting.... Exhaustively researched, seductively written.” — Michael Slenske, InterviewMagazine.com
“Mr. 15 minutes of fame gets 441 well-researched pages.” — People
“Scherman, a music writer, and Dalton, an art writer who briefly worked as an assistant to Warhol, entertainingly trace the artist rise from sickly, poor art student to a wealthy, prize winning Manhattan advertising designer to the most unlikely avant-garde painter of all time.” — Fred Kaplan, Washington Post
“If you want to know how Andrew Warhola became Andy Warhol, read this book.” — Barbara Rose, Author of American Art Since 1900
“Andy was fascinated with the speed and acceleration of life. This book beautifully conveys the sixties and his inner world. This is as close as you are going to get to the enigmatic Andy that I knew and liked.” — James Rosenquist
“A sharp-eyed chronicle of those unsettled days in the early sixties when everything was up for grabs. . . . Pulling back the curtain, this fascinating book takes the true measure of Andy Warhol, the pale, enigmatic Wizard of Odd.” — Fred Goodman, author of The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce
“Scholarly, impeccably researched and well written, POP immerses us in the fast-moving, dissolute life of Andy Warhol. . . . No one could, or can, be indifferent to Warhol. This book gives us a deeply insightful portrait of the tormented man behind the myth.” — Antony Penrose, director of the Lee Miller Archive and the Penrose Collection
“No stone is left unturned in this insightful, entertaining biography, which also offers a fascinating account of the crazy visionary sixties decade. A must-read, POP is a fun trip into the complex world of the madman plastic inevitable genius that was Andy Warhol.” — Robert Heide, playwright
“What a feast of deep and penetrating investigation! Out of this wealth of fascinating detail-thousands of stories, observations, conversations-Tony Scherman and David Dalton have beautifully mapped out the making of the remarkable life and art of one of the greatest rebel heroes and innovative liberators in art history.” — Tony Shafrazi
“A comprehensive reappraisal. . . . Both an indelible portrait of the artist as a weird young man and an elegant survey of one of the most vital and revolutionary periods in American popular culture-a richly detailed, kaleidoscopic treat.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Riveting.... Exhaustively researched, seductively written.
Andy was fascinated with the speed and acceleration of life. This book beautifully conveys the sixties and his inner world. This is as close as you are going to get to the enigmatic Andy that I knew and liked.
[A] fascinating study of Warhol’s rise from commercial artist to the most celebrated painter and filmmaker in 1960s America.
[Draws] for the first time on full use of the archives of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. . . . [A] crazy, amazing, compelling story. This book does it justice.
Scholarly, impeccably researched and well written, POP immerses us in the fast-moving, dissolute life of Andy Warhol. . . . No one could, or can, be indifferent to Warhol. This book gives us a deeply insightful portrait of the tormented man behind the myth.
No stone is left unturned in this insightful, entertaining biography, which also offers a fascinating account of the crazy visionary sixties decade. A must-read, POP is a fun trip into the complex world of the madman plastic inevitable genius that was Andy Warhol.
What a feast of deep and penetrating investigation! Out of this wealth of fascinating detail-thousands of stories, observations, conversations-Tony Scherman and David Dalton have beautifully mapped out the making of the remarkable life and art of one of the greatest rebel heroes and innovative liberators in art history.
"Mr. 15 minutes of fame gets 441 well-researched pages."
Even among his inner circle, Andy Warhol (1928-78) was an outsider. The elusive innovator who changed the face of art spoke softly, often covering his mouth, and hid his eyes behind dark, dark glasses. In this biography, the Pittsburgh-born son of Eastern European immigrants comes off as conscientiously enigmatic; frightened, yet fearless; shy of social contact, yet an inveterate crowd manipulator. A lively view of a Pop Art icon.
Scherman, a music writer, and Dalton, an art writer who briefly worked as an assistant to Warhol, entertainingly trace the artist's rise from a sickly, poor art student to a wealthy, prize-winning Manhattan advertising designer to the most unlikely avant-garde painter of all time.
—The Washington Post
The notion of two connoisseurs of rock undertaking what seems to be the umpteenth biography of Warhol might not sound too enticing, but they have in fact written an excellent book, a work of great clarity and concision that makes Warhol (and rock critics) feel fresh again.
—The New York Times
Former Musician and Life editor Scherman (Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story, 2000) and Rolling Stone founding editor Dalton (Edie Factory Girl, 2006, etc.) offer a comprehensive reappraisal of the '60s heyday of pop-art savant Andy Warhol. The authors focus on the techniques and governing philosophy of the work that profoundly influenced both "high" and "low" culture, effectively collapsing the barrier between the two. Examining Warhol's most fertile period, roughly 1961 to the artist's near-fatal shooting in 1968, Scherman and Dalton marshal a staggering amount of research and copious interviews with Warhol's associates to provide new insights into the creation of the famous images of soup cans and soda bottles, serial celebrity portraits, multimedia happenings and experimental films that alternately energized and horrified the fine-art establishment. Though the authors concentrate mostly on the work itself, it is so inextricably tied to Warhol's personality that a psychological portrait of the artist emerges. Warhol, morbidly shy and insecure, sexually stymied and determinedly vague and affectless, inserted himself into the heart of the culture through a native sense of canny manipulation and an infallible eye for design. Childish, casually cruel and ruthless in his personal and professional relationships, Warhol stands as a monument to the power of passive aggression. Vivid portraits of such Warhol-adjacent luminaries as Jasper Johns, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan and Factory "superstars" Edie Sedgwick and Gerard Malanga provide much of the narrative's color, elements that recombined in endlessly fascinating and fruitful ways with Warhol as the gnomic, giggling catalyst. Both anindelible portrait of the artist as a weird young man and an elegant survey of one of the most vital and revolutionary periods in American popular culture-a richly detailed, kaleidoscopic treat.
Mr. 15 minutes of fame gets 441 well-researched pages.
A sharp-eyed chronicle of those unsettled days in the early sixties when everything was up for grabs. . . . Pulling back the curtain, this fascinating book takes the true measure of Andy Warhol, the pale, enigmatic Wizard of Odd.
Illuminating.
If you want to know how Andrew Warhola became Andy Warhol, read this book.
