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56/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Blake Gopnik
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
April 28, 2020
The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of hisâor anyâage.
What The Reviewers Say
There are so many Warholian moments in this superb biography that it’s hard to know where to start.
... a slow-burn marvel, carefully connecting sections of Warhol’s complicated life which at first glance don’t seem to interlink. The result is a revealing, cohesive whole.
Having interviewed more than 260 people and consulted some 100,000 documents, Gopnik succeeds in establishing the chronology and tracing the fine lines of Warhol’s many succeeding interests, decisions, departures, whims and relationships of all sorts. Few artists’ biographies can have recorded so many changes — in style, stance and social milieu — occurring often on a week-to-week basis for some 35 years, amounting to a density of information more akin to, say, military history. We will all find our favorite Warhol avatar, of the hundreds on offer, somewhere within these pages.
Warhol lived one of the great lives of the 20th century, and he now has a biography worthy of that life.
