Popism
The Warhol Sixties
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 3, 2015
Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol's personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s.
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- Who it’s for
- Warhol offers a funny, frank, and detached view of New York’s Pop-era cultural whirl.
- Themes
- 1960s New York culture, Pop Art and the avant-garde, Cultural revolution
- Genres
- Artists' Lives, Contemporary Art History (1945-), Pop Culture & Art
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Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol's personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s. A cultural storm swept through the 1960s—Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies—and at its center sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens) and everybody knew Andy.
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His studio, the Factory, was the place: where he created the large canvases of soup cans and Pop icons that defined Pop Art, where one could listen to the Velvet Underground and rub elbows with Edie Sedgwick and where Warhol himself could observe the comings and goings of the avant-garde. In the detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, Warhol tells all in POPism—the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution.
Art, Up Close
Warhol offers a funny, frank, and detached view of New York’s Pop-era cultural whirl.
Come here for
- Back-fence gossip from the artist at the center of the scene
- A personal take on Pop Art, music, and underground movies
Expect
- Anecdotal, playful observations
- A layered view of a cultural moment
Where it sits
| Artists' Lives | 87% |
|---|---|
| Contemporary Art History (1945-) | 35% |
| Pop Culture & Art | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Art
- Studying Artists
- Artists' Lives
- Authors
- Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- February 3, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- 1960s New York culture · Pop Art and the avant-garde · Cultural revolution
- Reading lane
- American Art