Like Andy Warhol

Scholarly considerations of Andy Warhol abound, including very fine catalogues raisonn, notable biographies, and essays in various exhibition catalogues and anthologies. But nowhere is there an in-depth scholarly examination of Warhols oeuvre as a wholeuntil now. Jonathan Flatleys Like Andy Warhol is a revelatory look at the artists likeness-producing practices, not only reflected in his famous Campbells soup cans and Marilyn Monroe silkscreens but across Warhols whole range of interests including movies, drag queens, boredom, and his sprawling collections. Flatley shows us that Warhols art is an illustration of the artists own talent for liking. He argues that there is in Warhols productions a utopian impulse, an attempt to imagine new, queer forms of emotional attachment and affiliation, and to transform the world into a place where these forms find a new home. Like Andy Warhol is not just the best full-length critical study of Warhol in print, it is also an instant classic of queer theory.