Table of Contents
Prelude: Death 1
Chapter 1 (1928-1934) 5
Birth
Pittsburgh
Carpatho-Rusyns
Church
Chapter 2 (1934-1945) 21
Family Life
School
Illness
The Carnegie Institute
Schenley High
College Bound
Chapter 3 (1945-1947) 41
Fine Arts at Carnegie Tech
Classmates and Teachers
A Dose of Failure
Window Dressing
Gay Life and Its Dangers
Artistic Role Models
Chapter 4 (1947-1949) 65
Dada and Film at Tech
Outlines Gallery and the Avant-Garde
Star Student
Origins of the Blotted Line
New York Horizons
Chapter 5 (1949) 83
First New York Digs and Contracts
Fashion Magazines, Record Covers, Book Jackets
Chapter 6 (1949-1951) 93
Franziska Boas and the Bohemian Life
A Starving-Artist Commune
Tommy Jackson and a First Flirtation
Living Solo and Hunting for Work
Chapter 7 (1951-1952) 111
New Luxuries
Otto Fenn
Stalking Capote
Julia Warhola Arrives
Commercial Success
Whimsical Chapbooks
Chapter 8 (1952-1954) 131
Hugo Gallery and an Homage to Capote
To Lower Lexington
The Cats
The First Boyfriend
The First Wig
Chapter 9 (1954-1955) 145
Serendipity Café
Coloring Parties
Camp
The Loft Gallery
Chapter 10 (1955-1956) 155
Window Display
Shoes Shoes Shoes
Nathan Gluck Arrives
The Bodley Gallery
Chapter 11 (1956-1959) 171
Generosity
Charles Lisanby
The World Tour
Compulsive Shopping
Edward Wallowitch
Ray Johnson
The Foot Book
A Silver Décor for the Theater
1,000 Names and Where to Drap Them
Chapter 12 (1960-1961) 193
The New Town House
Illness
Art Collecting
Judson Church Performances
Emile de Antonio
The Threat of Photography
An Art-Market Boom
Chapter 13 (1961) 209
Window Props Become Pop Art
Yves Klein
Ivan Karp and Henry Geldzahler Visit the Studio
Birth of the Soup Cans
Chapter 14 (1961-1962) 233
Youth Culture
Faux Innocence
The Critical Reception of Pop
Chapter 15 (1962) 247
Warhol, a "New Talent"
Hunt for a Gallery
Painting Money
Soup Cans in Los Angeles
Martha Jackson Cancels a Show
The Stable Gallery Steps Up
Chapter 16 (1962) 267
Birth of the Silkscreen
Liz Taylor and Baseball
"New Realists" and the Launch of Pop
Marilyn at the Stable
Chapter 17 (1963) 289
The Firehouse
Death and Disasters
Costumes for The Beast in Me
Photo Booth Portraits
A Portrait of Ethel Scull
Mona Lisa
Chapter 18 (1963) 305
Gerard Malanga Starts Work
Downtown Poets
Amphetamines
Downtown Filmmakers
Home Movies with Jack Smith in Old Lyme
John Giorno in Sleep
Kiss
The Put-On
Chapter 19 (1963) 329
Elvis and Liz in Los Angeles
Driving to L.A.
Hollywood Reception and Marcel Duchamp
Taylor Mead and Naomi Levine in Tarzan
Mourning J.F.K.
Jackie
The Haircuts
Chapter 20 (1964) 353
Finding the Factory
Screen Tests
Billy Name
The Factory, Silvered
Boxes at the Stable Gallery
Chapter 21 (1964) 371
The First Factory Party
Most Wanted Men for the World's Fair
A Raunchy Couch and Blow Job
The Empire State Building, Observed
Flowers
Chapter 22 (1964) 391
From Eleanor Ward to Leo Castelli
Stipend Stability
Baby Jane Holzer, Girl of the Year
Soap Opera
Pop Goes Mainstream
Chapter 23 (1965) 405
An Anti-Christmas Tree
Film Accolades
Speed Freaks
Henry Geldzahler Smokes a Cigar
Philip Fagan, First of the Live-in Lovers
30 Films in One Year
Movies and the Death of Painting
Chapter 24 (1965) 425
Edie Sedgwick
To Paris with Friends
Superstardom
Andy and Edie, Fashion Twins
The Striped Shirt
The Birth of Video Art: Outer and Inner Space
Warhol Fan Clubs
A Celebrity, At Last
Chapter 25 (1965) 445
Factory Rivalries
New Arrivals: Paul Morrissey, Brigid Berlin, Bibbe Hansen
Too Many Parties
My Hustler
Danny Williams Moves In, Then Out
Chapter 26 (1965) 463
Andymania at the Philadelphia I.C.A.
Warhol Sculpts His Persona
Chapter 27 (1966) 479
The Velvet Underground
Rocking a Dinner for Shrinks
Fall of Edie, Rise of Ingrid Superstar
Chapter 28 (1966) 493
The Exploding Plastic Inevitable
New Warholians: Mary Woronov, Susan Bottomly, Susan Pile
The End of Illustration
Money Worries, and Hopes
A Velvet Underground Album
Chapter 29 (1966) 507
Silver Clouds and Wallpaper Cows
Julia Warhola at Home, and Ailing
Richard Rheem Moves In, Then Out
Chapter 30 (1966) 519
Repetition as an Art Supply
A Portrait of Holly Solomon
Clouds and Cows Cross the Country
A Boston Retrospective
The Velvets on Tour
"You're In" Perfume
Jane Heir, A Failed Feature Film
The Birth of Chelsea Girls
Chapter 31 (1967) 539
Max's Kansas City
Flesh on Film: Bike Boy and Nude Restaurant
A Crumbling Factory
Rod La Rod
The Andy Warhol Story
Superstar Russian Roulette
Chapter 32 (1967) 553
Dead-End Art
Prints, A New Income Stream
Chelsea Girls Goes National, and to Cannes
Thirteen Most Wanted Men in Paris
End of the Velvets
Chapter 33 (1967) 567
Four Stars-25 Hours of Film
A: a novel-24 Hours of Talk
Andy Warhol's Index (Book)
A Fake Lecture Tour
Exit Gerard Malanga
The Silver Factory Shuts Down
Chapter 34 (1968) 587
A New Studio on Union Square
Lonesome Cowboys in Arizona
Order Replaces Chaos
Last of the Factory Crowd
Fancy Fred Hughes
A Survey in Sweden
Chapter 35 (1968) 609
Valerie Solanas
SCUM Manifesto
I, a Man
The Shooting
The Hospital
The Arrest
Chapter 36 (1968) 625
Recovery
Security at the Studio
Midnight Cowboy
Solanas and the Feminists
Flesh and the Business of Film
New(Super-)Stars: Joe Dallesandro and a Transgendered Trio
Chapter 37 (1968) 641
Home from the Hospital
Editing Lonesome Cowboys
100 Happy Rockefellers
Julia in Decline
Jed Johnson Moves In
Back in the Saddle but Still Sore
Pat Hackett, Ultimate Ghostwriter
Hospital Bills, Lawsuits and Rubber Checks
Profitable Portraits
Chapter 38 (1968-1969) 663
Fuck, A Blue Movie
Forays into Conceptualism: Vacuum Cleaners and Superstars for Rent
"Raid the Icebox" and the Museum as Art
Floating Chairs and Rain Machines
Video Ventures
A Sundae for Schrafft's
Chapter 39 (1969) 685
Valerie Solanas Gets Out
More Surgery
Rolling Stones Album Covers
Hollywood Film Plans Collapse (Twice)
Gerard Malanga's "Male Parade"
The Birth of Interview
Business Art, the Next Step After Art
Frozen Foods at the Andy-Mat
Chapter 40 (1970-1971) 709
A Warhol Retrospective (Again)
Bob Colacello and Vincent Fremont Come on Board
Andy Warhol, Super-Shopper
New Patrons: Sandy and Peter Brant
L'Amour and Its Crowd
VIP Living
Failures in Theater: Andy Warhol's Pork and Man on the Moon
Chapter 41 (1971-1972) 729
Financial Fiddling
Fine Cars and Real Estate
Country Life and Celebrity Renters: Lee Radziwill and the Kennedy Kids, Mick and Bianca Jagger
Chapter 42 (1972-1973) 739
Julia Warhola Heads Home to Die
Chairman Mao and the Un-Death of Painting
Biting into Europe's Upper Crust
The Polaroid Big Shot, for Big Shots
Gallstone Warning
Frankenstein and Dracula in Rome
With Warhol, Liz Taylor is in The Driver's Seat
Chapter 43 (1974) 761
Warhol Headquarters in Paris
Interview, Fashion and Society
Halston and Glamour
The Bent Genders of Ladies and Gentlemen
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (and of His Ghostwriters)
POPism, a (Non-)Autobiography
Chapter 44 (1974-1975) 783
A New Home
Jed Johnson Decorates
Return of Brigid Berlin
Time Capsules and the Fine Art of Junk
Highborn Interns
A Rolls-Royce to the Diamond District
The Interview Lunch and Its Prey
Chapter 45 (1975-1977) 803
Portrait Prey: Iranian Royals and Imelda Marcos
At the White House with Gerald Ford
In Georgia with Jimmy Carter
Commercial Art: Athletes, Pets, Cars and Houses
Victor Hugo and the Nude as Landscape
Piss Paintings
Chapter 46 (1977-1980) 819
Studio 54
Shadow Paintings
Portraits at the Whitney
Bad, the Last Movie
Jed Johnson Leaves
Chapter 47 (1981) 837
Warhol the Model
Exposures: A Social Life
Ronald Feldman's Business Propositions
Outsourcing to Rupert Smith
Chapter 48 (1982-1983) 853
The New Art Kids
Warhol and Basquiat
Rorschach Paintings
Shopping and Collecting
Chapter 49 (1982-1986) 871
The ConEd Studio
Andy Warhol TV
Tensions with Fred Hughes
Ad Work
The Love Boat
Camouflage Paintings
Jon Gould
AIDS
Warhol's Charity
Chapter 50 (1986-1987) 897
Crystal Therapy
Last Suppers in Milan
Stitched Photos
The Last Runway
Gallbladder Trouble
The Fatal Surgery
Postlude: Afterlife 911
A Note on Sources 913
Acknowledgments 919
Credits 923
Index 929