Warhol: The Biography
by Victor Bockris
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Author: Victor BockrisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-08-14
ISBN: 030681272X
Number of pages: 624
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Book Review: A good, not great, biography
Summary: 3 Stars
Now out in a new edition, Victor Bockris' WARHOL is a very solidly written and researched biography. In particular, the first half creates an extremely detailed portrait of Warhol's Pittsburgh youth; this adds a tremendous amount of context and depth to Warhol's own work, and the meanings and symbolisms of that work will gain new clarity after reading through some of Bockris' book.
Unfortunately, the book gets less detailed and more gossipy later on - Warhol's many flaws are underlined again and again, but Warhol surrounded himself with other highly creative people who launched interesting careers of their own - Paul Morrissey and Lou Reed both spring to mind - and Bockris does little or no investigation of Warhol's influence upon them, and any actual ideas just seem to get lost here amid the varied bits of gossip.
-David Alston
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