Stargazer

Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol

by Stephen Koch, Novelist, Historian, Lecturer

Stargazer is to die over.—Andy Warhol

The definitive critical study of twentieth-century pop culture icon Andy Warhol, the man who redrew the boundaries of art.

Andy Warhol’s work and personality changed American visual culture forever, making him an international superstar. In this must-read volume, heralded as “exemplary” by Artforum and “resoundingly brilliant” by Film Comment, Stephen Koch provides unprecedented detail on Warhol’s life and work—his rise to global fame, his entanglement with the seedy New York sexual underground, and the shocking assassination attempt that almost ended his life are chronicled—giving particular attention to a medium that found Andy at his wildest: film. The “superstars” he created—Candy Darling, Ultra Violet, Edie Sedgwick—to populate his films and his curation of socialites mingling with hustlers that coined the phrase “The Beautiful People” seem prescient as we consider today’s stars and cultural panorama.

In Stargazer, Koch illuminates the inspiration and brilliance on both sides of the public image that Warhol, who made paradox an art form, so meticulously crafted. In doing so, he gets to the core of Warhol’s most interesting invention: his own public personality, the strange persona that this frightened and brilliantly talented poor-boy from Pittsburgh created to survive the savage world of his own ambitions.

ISBN (Paperback) 9780714529202
Price (Paperback) £9.95/$14.95
Publication October 16, 2000
Pages 172
Size 235 x 153 mm
Readership general readers

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  • isbn
    9780714529202 (Paperback)
  • publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • publisher place
    Sheffield (U.K.)
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    ISD has Stock Central has stock sold 3. MB edition on Amazon and OPEN ROAD Kindle edition and a free audio book. Was this licensed. Have asked CK