Book description
Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol's personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s.
A cultural storm swept through the 1960sāPop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground moviesāand at its center sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the culturalā¦
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1 author picked POPism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
OK, Warhol probably did not write a single word of this book, and OK, you should believe nothing in it (or that Warhol ever said). But Pat Hackett channels Warholās voice and attitude uncannily, and the stories, however dubious the provenance, are funny and insightful about the art world of the nineteen sixties.
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