POPism: The Warhol Sixties
by Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett
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Author: Andy Warhol, Pat HackettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-05
ISBN: 0156031116
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Book Review: Andy in Wonderland
Summary: 5 Stars
As the '60s becomes the stuff of nostalgic TV and fading memory (You were REALLY at Woodstock, Grandpa?) it is a reality check to read something by someone who lived at its center. Popism by Andy Warhol and Pat Hacket paints a rich picture of life during that decade. For if by the late '60s San Francisco had become the city of the counterculture, Andy Warhol reveals that all throughout the 60s New York was the city of culture, and at times playing the role of the caterpillar and other times that of Alice herself, Popism is Andy's tumbling ride down the rabbit hole of that decade.
Very often pictures of Andy during this period (there are several in the book) show an expressionless, silver-coiffed man wearing dark glasses. Popism reveals what was going on behind those glasses; Andy, by his own admission, could be totally passive; but his passivity masked an intensity about the times in which he lived; observing, commenting, noting everything that interested him. Andy Warhol's fascination with the artifacts of culture; The clothes worn, the songs heard, the drugs taken become the stuff of every story as Andy remembers what it was like as his factory began to become the center of the art world. Andy opines on the Abstract Expressionists that came before him, on the rapid way in which art in the '60s became big business, on the way money became freedom not only to do what you want, but to create what you want, and on how the idealism of the early 60s slid inexorably into the excess and violence of the late 60s, culminating for Andy, of course, in the personal experience of being shot by Valerie Solanas.
Known for his soup cans, it will come as something of a surprise that early on Andy lost interest in the graphic arts. Popism is largely the story of his film career, and of the constellation of characters who hung out with him at their favorite bar, Max's Kansas City, and acted in his films. This is one of the major plusses of Popism, because Andy is seldom funnier than when he makes some side comment about his group of fellow travelers. Another plus is the glimpse Andy gives into the New York of the 1960s - a wild and wooly place, where rents were cheap, art was flourishing and popular culture was breaking through the stultifying moralism of the 1950s.
For those of us living in the debt-ridden, fear - driven 21st century, Popism is wonderful, drug-and-incense-scented whiff of that time. It leads us to question whether such creativity is even possible in today's world and if so, whets our appetite to find it.
Summary of POPism: The Warhol Sixties
Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol?s personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s and a look back at the relationships that made up the scene at the Factory, including his relationship with Edie Sedgewick, focus of the upcoming film Factory Girl. In the detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, Warhol tells all—the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution.
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