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  The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

  From A to B and Back Again

  by Andy Warhol

  Warhol talks: about love, sex, beauty, fame, work, money, success; about New York and Americanca; and about himself. "A constant entertainment and enlightenment." -Truman Capote.
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  The Andy Warhol Diaries

  by Pat Hackett, Andy Warhol

  Now in trade paperback, the sensational national bestseller that turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time.
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  Edie: American Girl

  by Jean Stein, George Plimpton

  When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet--aristocratic, glamorous, and Andy Warhol's superstar. Then at 28 her light fizzled and died from a drug overdose. Alternately thrilling, tragic and horrifying, this book shatters many myths about the American sixties. Photographs.
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  Swimming Underground

  My Years in the Warhol Factory

  by Mary Woronov

  This is Mary Woronov's account of her near-lethal experiences in Andy Warhol's Factory in the late 1960s. She takes the reader on a surreal trip to experience the sights, the sounds, moods, and decadence of a group of now infamous people (including Ondine Lou Reed, Nico, Gerald Malanga, International Velvet, Rotten Rita and Billy Name). It's an amphetamine memoir of lives spinning out of control from an insider... (more)
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  Cats, Cats, Cats

  by Andy Warhol

  19 black-and-white and 20 color illustrations
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  Fabulous: A Portrait of Andy Warhol

  by Bonnie Christensen

  You might recognize him from his famous paintings of Campbell’s soup cans and coke bottles. But do you know about the artist who created these images? Any Warhol was often sick as a child but found comfort in reading comic books and most especially in drawing. From his early days in Pittsburgh in the 1930s to the height of his glory in the 1960s when he blurred the line between commercial art and fine art, this... (more)
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  The Ghost of Neil Diamond

  by David Hartley Milnes

  Dark Comedy. In 25 words from here: washed up English folk legend tries to come back in the Far East as a Neil Diamond impersonator, and suffers an annihilation of his personality.
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  by Andy Warhol

  Now available after 20 years--Andy Warhol's only novel. Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, referred to as "pornography" in "The New York Times Book Review's" original review and as "a work of genius" by "Newsweek", "a: A Novel" is the perfect literary manifestation of Warhol's sensibility. "Like "Finnegan's Wake", it remakes the language".--"The New Yorker" .
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  America

  by Andy Warhol

  Warhol carries a camera everywhere he goes. He shoots celebrities, entertain ers, writers, avant-garde artists, body- builders, wrestlers, eccentrics, and ur ban street poor. This collection has been selected from a 10-year archive. Warhol's eye catches the odd contra diction, the outlandish, the amusing, the touching. It is never contemptuous. The cumulative effect tells us some thing about contemporary America... (more)
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  All Yesterdays' Parties

  The Velvet Underground in Print: 1966-1971

  by Clinton Heylin

  An evocative portrait, in words and pictures, of the Velvet Underground in their day The Velvet Underground are among the most influential bands of all time. Their trademark sound is easily detected in David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, R.E.M., Jane's Addiction, Yo La Tengo, Luna, and the Strokes, and they are also credited with creating a streetwise, pre-punk sensibility that has become inseparable from the... (more)
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  Shoes, Shoes, Shoes

  by Andy Warhol

  With illustrations culled from his Foundation for the Visual Arts, this mini-book portrays Warhol's shoe designs and includes rarities published for the first time. Accompanied throughout by Warhol quotes, the drawings demonstrate a talent for transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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  Andy Warhol 1928-1987: Commerce into Art (Basic Art)

  by Klaus Honnef

  Andy Warhol is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist. Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings ("Campbell-" and "Brillo" series), as well as their fascination for sensational... (more)
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  Edie Factory Girl

  by Nat Finkelstein, David Dalton

  She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-sixties. Like many exotic creatures that Andy Warhol shed his light on, she initially bloomed—became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish—and just as quickly began to disintegrate. Told with unsparing candor and with candid images that capture her at the peak of her Factory... (more)
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  Notes from the Teenage Underground

  by Simmone Howell

  Seventeen-year-old Gem loves movies, her feminist mom, and Dodgy, her coworker in a video store (at least she thinks she loves Dodgy).  When a school trip inspires Gem to make an underground film, her best friends Lo and Mira are quick to join the project, taking on the roles of producer and star. The film is intended to cement the girls’ friendship as well as their superiority over their sucker high school... (more)
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  Greetings from Andy: Christmas at Tiffany's

  by Andy Warhol, John Loring

  Before achieving fame and glory as a leading Pop artist, Andy Warhol was a successful commercial artist who contributed illustrations to women's magazines and designed windows and promotional materials for department stores. Among his clients was Tiffany & Co., for whom he created a series of designs for holiday greeting cards. The whimsical drawings and paintings he produced for Tiffany's Christmas cards are... (more)
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  Happy Times

  by Lee Bouvier Radziwill

  Leafing through a wealth of private photo albums and personal archives, Lee Radziwill offers a unique perspective of happy times: from the first trip to Europe and the Bouvier sisters to fond memories of Christmas in Palm Beach with President Kennedy, from her years in London to summer days in Conca, Lee Radziwill has enjoyed a very colorful and successful life. She brings alive, with humor and feeling,... (more)
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  Nico

  Songs They Never Play on the Radio

  by James Young

  The story of Nico, former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground and darling of Andy Warhol's factory.;In 1982 Nico was living in Manchester, alone and interested only in feeding her heroin habit. Local promoter Dr Demetrius saw an opportunity, hired musicians to back her, rented a decrepit van and set off with Nico and the band on a disastrous tour of Italy. Over the next six years, until her... (more)
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  Make It Pop!: Activities and Adventures in Pop Art (Art Explorers)

  by Joyce Raimondo

  * Interactive introduction to six famous artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and George Segal * Hands-on approach to understanding great art The Art Explorers series offers a new approach to art, encouraging kids to interpret what they see in famous artworks, then try the techniques themselves. Make It Pop!: Activities and Adventures in Pop Art , the... (more)
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  Andy Warhol Men

  by Andy Warhol

  Rarely seen and often created for his own delight, Pop artist Andy Warhol's images of men are among his most personal and sensual work. Collected in book form here for the first time, Andy Warhol Men showcases hundreds of illustrations, paintings, drawings, silkscreens, Polaroid studies, and fine art photographs in a handsome and intimate volume. Mostly nudes, this gallery of delights includes the beautiful boys... (more)
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  A Low Life in High Heels: The Holly Woodlawn Story

  by Holly Woodlawn

  Birth NameHaraldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl TriviaThe legendary Lou Reed song "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" refers to Holly, indelibly imprinting her story in American pop culture. "Holly Came From Miami, F-L-A..." are the beginning lyrics forever describing Holly's arrival in New York City and ultimate imprint on the landscape of 1970s chique.Made his/her nightclub debut... (more)