America /
Andy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and America, a mélange of text and image whose photographs were selected by Warhol from ten years of extraordinary shots, echoes the strange beauty and staggering contradictions of the country itself. Exploring Warhol's greatest obsession...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper & Row,
[1985]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Andy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and America, a mélange of text and image whose photographs were selected by Warhol from ten years of extraordinary shots, echoes the strange beauty and staggering contradictions of the country itself. Exploring Warhol's greatest obsessions-including image and celebrity-Warhol photographs wrestlers and politicians, the beautiful wealthy and the disenfranchised poor. Many well-known figures are found in these pages: Capote with the fresh scars of a face-lift, Madonna hiding beneath a brunette bob, a nude Keith Haring about to go for a dip in the sea. In America, Warhol writes about the country he loves, about how he wishes he had died when he was shot in 1968, about commercialism, fame, and beauty. An America without Warhol is almost as inconceivable as Warhol without America, and this touching, witty tribute is the great artist of the superficial at his most deeply personal. Photographs portray American celebrities and areas of the country such as Texas, Aspen, California, New York City, and Washington, D.C. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 223 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 0060960043 9780060960049 0060154772 9780060154776 9780802123930 0802123937 |