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Before he found fame as the father of Pop Art, Andy Warhol was an accomplished advertising illustrator and commercial artist for fashion tastemakers such as Barney's, Neiman Marcus, I. Miller, Glamour, Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar. This delicately beautiful, colourfully playful and hugely influential fashion illustration work from the 1950s has never before been collected in a book. A pop object in itself, Warhol Fashion Drawings is a fun and gorgeous gallery of hundreds of his most delightful images. These witty drawings - fanciful shoes, chic hats, smart suits and perfect accessories to match - showcase his unique ability to find inspiration in the everyday and elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary. Sprinkled with Warhol's perceptively funny observations - 'When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums' - Warhol Fashion Drawings is a must-buy book for anyone with style. ... Read more

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Fabulous Product
Beautiful fashion pictures! However, not as much text as expected. A great fashion picture book for adults.

ILLUSTRATING A LIFE MOST ARTFUL: ANDY WARHOL
These are the early illustrations from fashion magazines of the `50s, and they are just delightful. Shoes, fans, gloves and other glamorous necessities from the tastemakers of Vogue, Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar are full of wit, fun, style and a crazy cartoon-like kookiness that proves irresistible. The preface is written by Simon Doonan, the Creative Director of Barney's New York, who helps place the work squarely in historical perspective. While the drawings are clearly imbued with the unmistakable Warhol sense of fun,they also illustrate a very interesting relationship between what was commercial art and what was to become fine art. These drawings may have been originally done to illustrate articles and advertisements, but that strange, off-center sense of reality that Warhol later brought to his paintings and photographs is clearly present. And clearly still fashionable. ... Read more

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29 black-and-white and 11 color illustrations ... Read more

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Fabulous Coffee Table book
This book is beautiful it uses both hand draw art and a compulation of quotes by the author ... i love to read it and look at the pictures ---whether you love warhol or angels this book is a definate yes to any collector ... Read more

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Despite his fame, Andy Warhol remains an enigmatic figure. Regarded as the prince of Pop Art, he took everyday images - Marylin Monroe, the Empire State Building and dollar bill - and transformed them into works of art via repetition. This book looks at his life and work. ... Read more

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"Warhol's early drawings are characterized by a stylized reductivism or mannered simplicity that manages, like the artist's infrequent but affected speech, to say more in its special manner of saying less. In addition to their spare, magical, frequently uncanny otherworldliness, the one characteristic that most distinguished Warhol's early drawings from his peers' was the use of the blotted line technique," writes Todd Alden in his introduction to this focused volume. Strange World: Drawings 1948-1959 includes an eclectic collection of Warhol's blotted-line drawings, created between 1948 and 1959. These works illustrate Warhol's preference for the deliberately incomplete or unresolved image and often feature unpredictable trajectories of color. A familiar cast from Warhol's commercial art and illustrated books--friends, lovers, small children and the anonymous faces of office workers--are presented in concert with charged paper surfaces. ... Read more

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This stellar stocking stuffer--the follow-up to last year's phenomenally successful Angels, Angels, Angels and Cats, Cats, Cats--showcases a selection of Warhol's whimsical holiday drawings and watercolors, all accompanied by playful quotations from the artist's books and diaries. 37 illustrations, 29 in color. ... Read more

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A very Warhol Christmas
"Ho, Ho, Ho!", by Andy Warhol, is a delightful little book. It brings together a number of Warhol's works of visual art, done in various media, together with quotes from some of his writings. As the title indicates, the illustrations and text all have a Christmas theme.

Some of the illustrations are black-and-white, but most are in vibrant color. Warhol uses Santas, Christmas trees, presents, angels, poinsettias, and other motifs. The artwork as a whole is playful and charming. The quotes are fun too. A typical Warholism: "Big smiles make a party better because they're energy." A supplement at the end of the book gives the date and medium for each work of art--a definite plus for serious Warhol scholars!

I have to admit, I'm known as my family's "Scrooge" (doesn't every family have one?) around the holiday season. But Andy Warhol's "Ho, Ho, Ho!" even appealed to me. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, you may also be delighted by this whimsical book. ... Read more

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This book illuminates Warhol’s personal connection and engagement with themes such as icons, consumer society, politics, religion, and the self, trying to reveal the autobiographical aspect, the artist ‘in first person’ behind the pictorial plane, the subjectivity behind the machine.The book features about 50 works by Andy Warhol. ... Read more

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When James Warhola was a little boy, his father had a junk business that turned their yard into a wonderful play zone that his mother didn't fully appreciate! But whenever James and his family drove to New York City to visit Uncle Andy, they got to see how "junk" could become something truly amazing in an artist's hands.

Uncle Andy's offers an exciting and unique perspective on one of the most influential artists of our time. Through James' eyes, we see the things that made his family visits memorable-including the wonderful disarray of Andy's house, waking up surrounded by important art and incredible collected objects, trying on Andy's wigs, sharing the run of Andy's house with his twenty-five cats (all named Sam), and getting art supplies from Andy as a goodbye present. James was lucky enough to learn about art from an innovative master and he shows how these visits with Uncle Andy taught him about the creative process and inspired him to become an artist. ... Read more

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I went to high school with the Warhola kids
Madeleine was in my graduating class!They lived in Clairton, PA, about half an hour south of Pittsburgh.We weren't close, but she did sometimes talk about "Andy" coming for the holidays, not that most of us knew who "Andy" was at the time.

What a delightful look at the famous artist and his relatives!

One of my favorites
This is a very fun book. It is well illustrated by James Warhola (Andy's nephew) and tells an intriguing and funny story. If you are a fan of Warhol this gives a perspective on the artist you won't get anywhere else. If you love great children's books this is one of the funniest.

Great Story
I am an Elementary Art Teacher andI us this book in my class room. My kids love it. It really helps the little ones get into the world of Warhol.

A great fun read
My daughter and I both loved this book.I teach art history so I like to find books about artists.Andy Warhol is acharacter that appeals to children because of his love for everyday things.Having the story told by an actual member of Andy Warhol's family makes it even better.For children I think it reinforces the idea that art is everywhere and that they can be creative too.The illustrations are perfect and we giggled and laughed through most of the book.

Great book to teach about a famous an interesting artist!
I bought this book for our school's art program. The whole school learned about Andy Warhol and did an art project. This book was a hit with kindergarteners on up to sixth graders! It was a fun way to peek into the life of Any Warhol from the unique perspective of his nephew, James. The illustrations were beautiful and the story was well told. ... Read more

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In Andy Warhol's silent black-and-white movie, Blow Job (1964), a youth is filmed as he is apparently being given the sex act named in the title. The 35-minute film is accentuated by the paucity of expression on the actor's face: we see only his head and shoulders, rigidly framed so that all offscreen space has to be imagined, or avoided. Sometimes the young actor looks bored, sometimes as if he is thinking, sometimes as if he is aware of the camera, sometimes as if he is not. Like the protagonists of other Warhol films, he is apparently left to his own devices.

Warhol's 16mm films (including Blow Job, Sleep, Empire, and Henry Geldzahler), with their take on boredom, voyeurism, and the supposedly unmoving camera, continue to be influential today. In their own era of the early 1960s, they forced avant-garde film away from various forms of romantic illusionism and onto the reality of the specific film-as-projected. The film process itself became inseparable from the act of the viewer's viewing. In this extended examination of Blow Job, Peter Gidal deciphers the structures, abstract and concrete, of Warhol's crucial film. Warhol's techniques—the use of the close-up, the general use of camera movement, and the complete theatrical mise en scène—(especially when compared to the Godardian cinéma vérité of the time) make the materiality of the film process, its making and viewing, ineluctably present. ... Read more

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The Question-and-Answer interview was one of Andy Warhol's favorite communication vehicles, so much so that he named his own magazine after the form. Yet, never before has anyone published a collection of interviews that Warhol himself gave. I'll Be Your Mirror contains more then thirty conversations revealing this unique and important artist. Each piece presents a different facet of the Sphinx-like Warhol's ever-evolving personality. Writer Kenneth Goldsmith provides context and provenance for each selection. Beginning in 1962 with a notorious interview in which Warhol literally begs the interviewer to put words into his mouth, the book covers Warhol's most important artistic period during the '60s. As Warhol shifts to filmmaking in the '70s, this collection explores his emergence as socialite, scene-maker, and trendsetter; his influential Interview magazine; and the Studio 54 scene. In the 80s, his support of young artists like Jean-Michel Basquait, his perspective on art history and the growing relationship to technology in his work are shown. Finally, his return to religious imagery and spirituality are available in an interview conducted just months before his death. Including photographs and previous unpublished interviews, this collage of Warhol showcases the artist's ability to manipulate, captivate, and enrich American culture. ... Read more

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America's 20th century Lao Tzu of Pop...
Unless you're some sort of Warhol scholar, you really have to like Andy Warhol a heck of a lot to read all the way through the interviews collected in "I'll be Your Mirror." You practically have to be a Warcaholic to appreciate the Pop Master's technique of speaking volumes while ostensibly saying nothing...sometimes even when he really is saying nothing!

Warhol turned the interview into another display of his enigmatic aesthetic. What's interesting in this book isn't so much what Warhol says, but how he doesnt say it. His irony is so sharp that the interviewer is often seemingly unaware that he's even been cut--or delivered in so deadpan and naive a manner that either it's missed, misinterpreted it, or Warhol's interlocutor can't even be sure that he's been put-down or put-on.

I think a lot of people feel the same about Warhol's art...or, until relatively recently, a lot of people used to feel that way. Is this guy putting us on, or what?

Collected from a variety of sources, the interviews in "I'll Be Your Mirror" are uneven in quality, necessarily reprinted (and repeated) from other sources, and, because they are, in part, a Warholian performance, Warhol's answers are often redundant. In fact, there isnt a whole lot new here that a reader of Warhol's "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol" won't have already encountered. The fun, I suppose, comes in watching Warhol play his fey, fickle game of linquistic peek-a-boo, always giving away a little less than what he's ultimately getting: publicity.

Pretending, by turns, to be ignorant, inarticulate, indolent, and indecisve, Warhol often comes off sounding like both Beavis and Butthead with his ever-ready, all-purpose, one-size-fits-all grab bag of answers suitable for any occasion (or question) . One has to appreciate the skill involved in not-answering questions, in evading the obvious, the pretentious, the sycophantic, the frivolous and the invasive to derive any entertainment in listening to Warhol "Yes," "no," "I don't know," "gee," "really?" his way through a lifetime's gauntlet of interview after interview.

Of course, one must also remember that as "uncooperative" Warhol is in these interviews, they remain interviews; they aren't interrogations. Warhol agreed to be interviewed...sort of like a samurai accepts a challenge. From these encounters, Warhol emerges victorious, for the most part, you sense he hardly broke a sweat.

Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you're an evasive and elusive a character as I am than you'll surely appreciate the disappearing act that Warhol pulls off in these interviews...not just the act itself, but how he manages to do it. Although you have to keep your eyes open, you can hardly blink, because when you do, he's gone.

If you'd like to learn this neat trick, whether you're a world-renowned artist or not, a socialite hobnobber or a grocery clerk, a celebrity trendsetter or a reclusive crank, you can hardly do better than study Warhol's performance in the book. For the rest of what makes Warhol important, you're better off going somewhere else.

Theater ... or Andy revealed?
Wouldn't it be nice to be so important as to warrant almost 400 pages of being interviewed ... which, for Warhol, are only a selection. I wonder how many people have been interviewed as much?

There's a wide variety of interviews here, from the monosyllabic to the raunchy to more or less conventional in form but intelligent in content(when discussing art with those who understand art well).

What's missing with Warhol when interviewing is that need to explain onself in great detail that seems typical of most of us when given the chance. Somehow, despite our different backgrounds, when interviewed, we all sound the same: the pattern of the self given the chance to own the stage. Warhol often seems comfortable with responses of one simple sentence or less, which requires more interviewer participation and increases the tempo of the interviews.

Warhol's sense of humor and desire for productivity (work, work, work) are apparent. No time to waste words.

To make these interviews seem somewhat more concrete, look on the Web for the BBC audios of Warhol, several 1-3 minute segments that allow you to hear him.

After reading these, I understand him perhaps a little more and he seems a great deal less remote and more likeable. I bought this along with "Andy Warhol 365 Takes" from the Warhol Museum staff: these two books complement each other well, this one focused more on the man and the other on his works. Despite his fame, he seems a greater artist than was at first apparent to me.

U'mm, Uh, Oh Gee, I guess, this book is just okay, yeah!
First off, you will buy this book because you are a fan of Warhol and frankly you should buy it because it contains a lot of great stuff.I was super excited when I opened this book because I get a kick out of the thought that Warhol was often gently mocking (well, taunting certainly) us with his obtuse and oblique responses to his media questioners.The problem with not actually being able to see Warhol give these interviews is that it is impossible to know how much actually came from his own lips and how much was created to fit the agenda of the person writing or giving the interview.For instance, whenever Warhol was with one of his co-conspirators he often allowed that person to interject an answer to a question on his behalf.Also, many of these interviews were actually composed to fit a particular world view.For instance, Mr. Malanga's interview of Warhol reads like something that Mr. Malanga wrote, probably with Andy's approval, and then submitted for print.This is okay, but the really great stuff in an Andy Warhol interview is what actually issues from Andy accompanied by all of his funny mannerisms and quirks.This sometimes does come through in a number of interviews contained in this book, particularly ones given to novices and young men but too often the interviews read flat and almost textbook like.I don't want to turn you off to this book because I really believe that it is a worthwhile read.I just don't want you to expect too much so that you won't be disappointed. ... Read more

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In 1975, Andy Warhol undertook a series of portraits of New York City transvestites, most of whom were recruited by Bob Colacello from a club called The Gilded Grape. The method for making these portraits followed Warhol's customary formula: a Polaroid portrait of the sitter was silkscreened onto a canvas, which was then embellished with synthetic polymer paint in a bright array of red, pinks, yellows and pastels. Warhol's transvestites are portrayed in a fairly classical fashion, neck-up, often at a three-quarter angle, and beckon at the viewer with a variety of expressions, from the plaintive to the coquettish to the triumphant. This beautifully produced monograph features 40 spot-varnished color reproductions of the Ladies and Gentlemen series, and reprints the Italian film-maker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini's fascinating and unusual take on Warhol and on the series. ... Read more

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Learn about Andy Warhol with iMinds insightful knowledge series.
Andy Warhol came to public attention as one of the leading lights of the Pop Art movement of the 1960’s. Since then his art and legacy have polarised art critics and the public alike. This thin, pale, asexual man in a silver wig has been described as both a genius and a charlatan. His art, and maybe more importantly his approach to art, have taken him out of the galleries and museums into the public arena. Love or loath his work most agree that he broke down the divide between high art and mass culture.

Crucial to Warhol is this paradox: As an artist who approached art from its commercial perspective he pointed out how art is debased by money.

iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information segmentsto whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind. ... Read more

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On the occasion of what would have been Andy Warhol's eightieth birthday, in 2008, this exquisitely produced volume examines one essential but miraculously under-studied element of the artist's work: The shadow. Beginning with photographic still lifes of skulls and taxidermied animals, then moving on to male nudes, tabletops and table settings, celebrity portraits, gems, fruits and many amazing still lifes of hammers, sickles, shoes and other ordinary objects that presage Fischli & Weiss' Equilibres by several years, Shadows and Other Signs of Life concludes with Warhol's photographs of actual shadows and an outstanding selection of abstract silkscreens, stenciled works and piss paintings. Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at Paris' Galerie Chantal Crousel, this volume contains illuminating short texts--Anniversary Notes for Andy Warhol--by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. ... Read more

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Andy Warhol has been called the pope of twentieth-century pop culture-a one-man show who dazzled with his innovative influence not only on modern art, but also on film, music, fashion, and even the idea of celebrity. This box offers a unique peek at this modern legend’s vibrant, chaotic life, with exact reproductions of fascinating ephemera from the Factory years and beyond.

Includes

*Full-color booklet

*Self-inking Factory ring stamp

*Film wheelie

*Photo booth strips of Warhol's self-portraits

*Campbell's Soup button

*Astrological chart

*Warhol's personal stationery and business card

*Letters from Elizabeth Taylor and Mick Jagger

*New clippings

*Exhibit invitations

*Postcards showing stages of his work

*Complimentary pass to The Andy Warhol Museum

*And much more! ... Read more

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This is a blast for the Warhol fan
I just love this little collection of "stuff" from Andy Warhol, because that is what he was all about-- "stuff!" I have thought about framing some of the items inside, but it's fun topull the box out once in a while and just look through it. It's a real glimpse into his goofy, eccentric life and the things that were important to him. I have his diaries and many of his books, too, but this is really fun to have.

Awesome
I saw this at an urban outfitters store, and brought it a couple of days later. I have always had a fascination with the 1960s, and everything that came out during that decade,so I thought this was a cool thing for me to get. It contains, letters, postcards, a stamp, articles, a poster, a book explaining each item, and much more. Its fun to dig through it, once in a while. I would recommend this if you are a Warhol fan.

Factory Fans Rejoice
I recently gifted this box to an extremely knowledgeable fan of Andy Warhol and the Factory, who gleefully assures me of the excellence of its content.The box includes an explanatory bookletfor the uninitiated (like me), which illuminates the significance of each scrap of paper and memorabilia.Said memorabilia includes replicas of post cards from Warhol to his mother, a letter from Mick Jagger, artwork, and other Warhol ephemera.It's quite fun and interesting, even to someone who lacks a previous base of Warhol knowledge.

The diversity of Warhol hits home via these objects
There are many books on Warhol, but how many ways to inexpensively share in his objects? There are posters (warhol.org has qute a few) but for the price of 1 poster you can have this box.

I'd already read about 10 books on Warhol before I bought this box. I learned a lot but also became confused: Warhol did so many things. A good way to realize that is to lay the contents of this box out around you.

I'm more than satisfied with the number and quality of the reproductions. It seems well worth the list price and so is even a better deal at any discount.

So what about the selection of these objects? Seems to have been made to highlight Warhol's diversity. Nothing to do with his Interview magazine, but objects pointing to his paintings, his movies, his use of reproduction including silkscreens , photo booths, his exhibitions, his closeness to his mother, his being shot,his promotion of the Velvet Underground, his work on album covers, his association with celebrities, and a reminder not to expect everyone to like you (a cold rejection letter from MOMA). And, ever the business man, reminded by stationary and a business card (both of whose lettering was done by his mom).

So is that enough?

Some of these objects you can carry or wear, others you can hang up, some postcards you can send, stationary you can write on. If you do use some of the objects, consider buying a second Warhol Pop Box: you can keep one intact and make use of the objects in the other.

I've had mine 2 weeks and it gives me a good feeling, much warmer than I get from books. It took me a day or two to begin appreciating it. I've been going through it every day, right now it's like a candy store for me.

Creativity is hardly encouraged in our society, so why not identify with Andy by learning about him and from him? The contents of this box may help lift you out of a rut and into a life of heightened possibilities. Or something like that.

Like Fame, This Pop Box is Interesting for Only 15 Minutes
If you're looking for something of substance about the life & artwork of Andy Warhol or even just a time capsule that captures some of the essence of the Silver Factory era, this isn't it.This "Pop Box" is really just an assortment of less-than-authentic looking reproductions of Warhol's personal correspondence & various other flashy gewgaws, all of whose novelty wears thin within seconds after viewing them.Maybe on an artistic level this collection might have worked if the publisher had made more of an effort in trying to make the contents look authentic rather than just settling for the cheesy looking knock-offs that we were presented with.On the other hand I do think this collection would make a nice introduction for youngsters (maybe combined with Lou Reed & John Cale's excellent Warhol tribute CD "Songs for Drella") who are just starting to learn about Andy Warhol and Pop Art, but that's about it. ... Read more

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Book Description: Harry N Abrams Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1988. Soft Covers in Slipcase. Book Condition: Near Fine. Six near fine soft cover books in a slipcase (slipcase rubbed with edge wear and dings), very nice set. ... Read more

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Exquisite images of men, perfect to send or to keep for yourself. In conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. ... Read more

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From 1972 until his death in 1987, Andy Warhol worked prodigiously on a variety of projects. Sublime examples of his work from this period are gathered in this elegantly designed collection which includes essays on the artist and interviews with him.

This collection of paintings, photographs, prints, video stills, and interviews from the last fifteen years of Warhol’s career are presented in a four-volume slip-cased set. Along with his best known later works, which include his Oxidations, Camouflage, and Rorschachs, this set contains stills from Warhol’s forays into filmmaking, including L’Amour, Women in Revolt and Heat. Contact sheets from his work in photography offer an intimate glimpse of the glittering world of 1980’s New York. The artist’s books and renowned conversations, including his final interview with Paul Taylor, round out this superb exploration of Warhol’s last years.

vol. I: essays
vol. II: paintings
vol. III: photos/films/videos/books
vol. IV: interviews ... Read more

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Beautiful survey of Warhol's post-60s work
This set--catalogue for an exhibition currently traveling through Europe--is a nice survey of Warhol's underrated later work, including material not covered in any of the big retrospective volumes.The first part covers (mostly) paintings and (a few) wallpaper designs, starting with the ubiquitous "Mao" series and ending with the "Last Supper" series.In between, we get some of Warhol's most beautiful and enigmatic work (including the "Hammer and Sickles", a range of self portraits, the fairly well-known "Shadow", "Oxidation" and "Camouflage" paintings, as well as lesser-known things like the truly wonderful "Yarn" paintings).This is an exhibition catalogue, and as such only includes a few paintings from each series--we'll have to wait for the final volumes of the Warhol Catalogue Raisonne for the full experience.The paintings are reproduced nicely, with folding plates for the larger work and sometimes closeup details.The second partcovers photography, books, video and movies, along with some samples from Warhol's "Interview" magazine.The photography section is especially fun, as it includes contact sheets from Warhol's continual documentation of the world around him, sometimes juxtaposed with appropriate excerpts from his diaries.The final part consists on interviews with Warhol and essays about him, the former fun, the latter a mixed bag.

The format of the set is sharp: three paperbound volumes (not four as the amazon.com description says) with contrasting spines (paper, cloth and glue) housed in a sturdy slipcase with a luscious closeup reproduction of one of Warhol's "Oxidation" paintings.The individual paperbacks seem rather flimsy, my only concern about this handsome set. ... Read more

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The delectable cookbook spoof by Andy Warhol and Susie Frankfurt is in print at last in a beautiful facsimile edition. Wild Raspberries hands down the funniest, campiest, most fanciful cookbook ever produced. Nineteen vintage Warhol illustrations accompany the hilarious recipes--A&P Surprise, Gefilte of Fighting Fish, Seared Roebuck, and Omelet Greta Garbo, among others. Full color. ... Read more

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marvelous.good gift for a cook.
I adore this little book, am getting copies to give to my cooking friends and have plans to frame some of the entries.

The recipes are spoofs of the intricate French recipes en vogue during the 1950's, the illustrations are brightly colored Warhol sketches and each entry is calligraphed by Andy Warhol's mother (complete with scratched-over corrections).One of my favorite recipes for an impromptu summer picnic dessert requires a portable regrigerator from Abercrombie & Fitch ...

I've given four stars because not all of the recipes are as brilliant as my favorites, but they will all be cherished by people who cook (or by people who read Martha Stewart and sometimes giggle) ... Read more

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The breadth of Warhol's paintings
You can get a excellent sense of Warhol's progress from this book. 1962 seems to have been a decisive years. Before 1962, one can see Warhol's transition from commercial artist and early experimentalism. Beginning sometime in 1962, one sees the emergence of the well-chosen, well-executed images that Warhol is known for.

It seems helpful in understanding his growth to see some of Warhol's less appealing works. Nonetheless, with a total of about 320 pages of images, there are still plenty of Warhol's bettter works to see here.

Four high-quality, significant essays about Warhol open this book. The closing includes a chronology, a "collective portrait" consisting of short contributions from many who knew Warhol well, and "Warhol in his own words", selections that reveal how insightful yet straight-forward Warhol could be.

This seems to be the single best bible of Warhol's paintings. There is a comprehensive collection of Warhol's prints available in "Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne: 1962-1987" which seems prettier but may suffer from excessive prettiness. Warhol's trashier aspects are not apparent, nor is his experimental reach, in the prints. Both books have their appeal, but as a one source collection of Warhol's painting and critical assessments of it this Retrospective seems unparalleled.

For a good exposure to Warhol in all his diversity, "Andy Warhol: 365 Takes" by the staff of the Andy Warhol Museum is also valuable, but to focus on the paintings, this retrospective seems ideal.

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