Andy Warhol

Pat Hackett

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the bestselling classic is introduced to a new generation-with an added preface by Warhol's diarist and long-time friend, Pat Hackett, contemplating Warhol's lasting cultural impact. This international literary sensation turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures in American culture. Filled with shocking observations about the lives, loves, and careers of the rich, famous, and fabulous, Warhol's journal is endlessly fun and fascinating. Spanning the mid-1970s until just a few days before his death in 1987, THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES is a compendium of the more than twenty thousand pages of the artist's diary that he dictated daily to Pat Hackett. In it, Warhol gives us the ultimate backstage pass to practically everything that went on in the world-both high and low. He hangs out with "everybody": Jackie O ("thinks she's so grand she doesn't even owe it to the public to have another great marriage to somebody big"), Yoko Ono ("We dialed F-U-C-K-Y-O-U and L-O-V-E-Y-O-U to see what happened, we had so much fun"), and "Princess Marina of, I guess, Greece," along with art-world rock stars Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, and Keith Haring. Warhol had something to say about everyone who crossed his path, whether it was Lou Reed or Liberace, Patti Smith or Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra or Michael Jackson. A true cultural artifact, THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES amounts to a portrait of an artist-and an era-unlike any other.

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is where Warhol, in the detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, tells it all-the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution. Foreword by Andy Warhol; Index; photographs.

The Warhol Sixties

POPism

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s -- Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies -- and at its centre 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. 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-guarde.

POPISM, publicado por primera vez en España, es el deslumbrante documento de una década que lo cambió todo. Unas memorias que cubren el período más dinámico e interesante de la vida y la obra de Andy Warhol y que, en última instancia, pueden leerse como una novela. En estos diarios, inéditos en nuestro país, Warhol ofrece su peculiar versión del fenómeno pop en el Nueva York de los 60, y lo hace desde la privilegiada posición que le confiere su peso específico en el panorama artístico y mundano de aquella época irrepetible. Efervescente, lúcido e inevitablemente cool, como siempre, Warhol repasa aquellos tiempos vertiginosos y nos aporta, de primera mano, un sucinto anecdotario de sus encuentros y desencuentros con toda esa impagable galería de amigos, colaboradores, protegidos, allegados y promocionados varios que conformaron su más directo entorno. Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed, Paul Morrissey, Nico, Candy Darling y toda la troupe de la Factory están aquí. Y también, claro, las fiestas, los clubs, la interminable vida social, el arte, el sexo y las drogas de los cenáculos underground, sin obviar el momento crítico que supuso el intento de asesinato que por poco acaba con su vida. Más allá del glamour y la aparente frivolidad, también hay tragedia y mugre, queda el regusto amargo ante la larga lista de ángeles caídos que pueblan estas páginas.

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