Andy Warhol

An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture, a celebrity whose star shone as brightly as those of the Marilyns and Jackies whose likenesses brought him renown. Images of his silvery wig and glasses are as famous as his renderings of soup cans and Brillo boxescontroversial works that elevated commerce to high art. Warhol was an enigma: a partygoer who lived with his mother, an inarticulate man who was a great aphorist, an artist whose body of work sizzles with sexuality but who considered his own body to be a source of shame. In critic and poet Wayne Koestenbaums dazzling look at Warhols life, the author inspects the roots of Warhols aesthetic vision, including the pain that informs his greatness, and reveals the hidden sublimity of Warhols provocative films. By looking at many facets of the artists oeuvrefilms, paintings, books, HappeningsKoestenbaum delivers a thought-provoking picture of pop arts greatest icon.