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Andy Warhol (/ ˈ w ɔːr h ɒ l /; [1] born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.
Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967, and her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968.
The 807-page book is condensed from the complete 20,000-page diary maintained by Hackett. It begins in November 1976 and concludes eleven years later, just five days before Warhol's death in February 1987. The Andy Warhol Diaries was a commercial success, becoming a New York Times Best Seller.
Fifty years after her death at 29, Candy Darling – born Jimmy Slattery, of Massapequa, Long Island – is finally getting the star billing the Andy Warhol underground film star...
A rare masterpiece from Andy Warhol’s celebrated Death And Disaster series is expected to fetch more than 80 million dollars (£69 million) at auction. The titan of pop art, who was said to be ...
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) is a 1975 book by the American artist Andy Warhol.It was first published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.. The book is an assemblage of vignettes about love, beauty, fame, work, sex, time, death, economics, success, and art, among other topics, by the "Prince of Pop".
Big Electric Chair, created in 1967, is part of a series of works by Andy Warhol depicting an electric chair. Death by electrocution was a controversial subject in New York City, where the artist lived and worked, especially after the last two executions at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1963. The empty chair is believed to be a metaphor ...
As former Interview editor Bob Colacello wrote in the book Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, "Old money, Harvard, Hollywood it was a résumé that Andy couldn't resist. And there was something else about Jon Gould that drew Andy toward him: like Jed Johnson, [Warhol's previous boyfriend] he had a twin brother named Jay."