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.

... a huge, meticulous tome.

No one, thus far, has excavated anything surprisingly at odds with the Warhol reflected in his work or in the books he published. Everyone is less and more than their publicity, and much of Warhol’s life, like everybody’s, has the prosaic quality of nothing special. It doesn’t detract from his art to observe that Warhol had no imagination whatsoever. His literal-mindedness was his strong suit.

Huge claims are made for Andy Warhol in this massive book. He is, says Blake Gopnik, 'the most important and influential artist of the 20th century', who knocked Picasso off his throne.

Gopnik’s staggeringly thorough biography Warhol examines the artist in granular detail without losing the sweep of his story. Gopnik relates Warhol’s advancement from the child of a working-class family in Pittsburgh to a successful commercial artist in New York to an avant-garde icon and entrepreneur – but also adds to, and frequently corrects, the record.

Gopnik’s biography excavates many new or forgotten angles.

... thoroughly enjoyable.

... detailed, enthusiastic and absorbing.

Blake Gopnik’s Warhol isn’t the most critical entry into an already extensive library about Warhol.

Blake Gopnik, who, in his dauntingly detailed Warhol: A Life as Art, makes a series of extraordinary claims. Warhol, he says, has not only 'overtaken Picasso as the most important and influential artist of the 20th century', but now occupies 'the top peak of Parnassus, beside Michelangelo and Rembrandt' Such hyperbole is risible but is born from a sense of Warhol’s sheer heft as a cultural figure.

Andy Warhol had a big dick. I reveal this immediately for three reasons. First, to sound an appropriate note for Blake Gopnik’s 976-page whopper of a biography, a tome so intimately informed that it is impossible to imagine its depth of detail ever being out-mined. Second, because the artist’s sex life is a key focus of the book. Third, and most important, because it’s a question that nobody is asking, but everyone is thinking: and if Warhol taught us anything in his art it is not to search too loftily in humanity for motivations and directions.

... an exhaustive, 900-page journey though the American artist’s shapeshifting life.

... exhaustive.

Gopnik has constructed a portrait of the late Andy Warhol that has left no fact unturned. This lengthy, lively tale is designed to enchant both Warhol fans and those new to his unusual take on visual artistry and life in general.

It always seems to depend, more or less, on who’s asking. He could be The Man Who Wasn’t There, and also everywhere; a lightning rod, a walking Rorschach blot, an art star of both the highest and lowest order. All of those Andys exist — sometimes simultaneously over a single paragraph — in Blake Gopnik’s Warhol, a frank, gossipy, but not unacademic chronicle of one of the 20th century’s most foundational and confounding figures.

Certainly for those fascinated with Warhol, but equally for those seeking an in-depth yet accessible introduction to the artist..

The most impressive thing about this new Warhol biography is not its length—more than 900 pages—but the fact that art is discussed on nearly every one of them.

Art, commerce, homosexual camp, and the 1960s counterculture were all blithely blenderized by one man’s genius, according to this sweeping biography of pop art master Andy Warhol.

An epic cradle-to-grave biography of the king of pop art.