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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  Andy Warhol 1928-1962
Warhol gave various dates for his birth, but the correct one is August 6, 1928, based on a birth certificate that was filed late in order to qualify him for college and his certificate of baptism.
Warhol originally intended to study art education at the University of Pittsburgh in order to become an art teacher, but he changed his mind and applied to the Carnegie Institute to study pictorial design with the intention of becoming a commercial illustrator.
Warhol had met the surrealist poet CHARLES HENRI FORD at a party given by Ford's sister, RUTH FORD (an actress who was married to ZACHERY SCOTT), at Ruth's apartment in the Dakota on Central Park West and 72nd Street.
www.warholstars.org /chron/192862.html   (3827 words)

  
  Andy Warhol | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
The repeated images of Warhol's silkscreen paintings imitate the multiplication of representation in the age of mass media, new in the early 1960s; his portraits of Elvis and Brando, for example, are confessions of the desire the artist feels for pop icons whose image is everywhere.
After Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas, he ruefully admitted that he himself had once been an obsessive fan, stalking Capote, striking up a telephone relationship with the writer and insinuating himself into his house, until Capote's mother told him to leave her son alone.
Warhol worried that he was unlovable, and feared expressing love, but his professions of coldness were as implausible of those of any sentimentalist posing as tough.
www.guardian.co.uk /warhol/story/0,11478,635049,00.html   (2813 words)

  
 American Masters . Andy Warhol | PBS
Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in a two-room shack-like apartment at 73 Orr Street in the working class neighborhood of Soho in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Andrej Warhola and Julia Zavacky Warhola.
Warhol painted memorial portraits of her after her death; he also had made a film and shot videotapes of her.
Warhol closed the 1960s with an unusual exhibition, Raid the Icebox I, which he was invited to choose from the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design's museum.
www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/warhol_a.html   (1924 words)

  
 Warhol Superstar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warhol's philosophies of art and celebrity met in a way that replicated the film studios at their most powerful.
Warhol's 'Factory’ played host to most of his Superstars and as his experiments in film continued he became more interested in the bohemian eccentrics attracted to the studio.
Some of the most important superstars to emerge from the period of the first Factory, known as the 'Silver Factory' because it was painted entirely in silver, include Paul America, Ondine, Taylor Mead, Mary Woronov, Eric Emerson, Gerard Malanga, Billy Name and Brigid Berlin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warhol_superstar   (411 words)

  
 Sample Research Paper 1
Warhol did volunteer to feed the homeless at churches for a number of years, but his motives are unclear at best.
There were many instances where Warhol asked people to stop at a church so he could say a quick prayer, and he certainly made sure to visit famous religious sites when he traveled, but many believe that it was part of his act--part of the plastic persona that Warhol offered to the world.
Warhol didn't think it was necessary for a person to sit for hours to have their portrait painted; he didn't even have to meet them in person.
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 Carnegie Magazine
As with Warhol's subjects, although each was once a living being with passion and personality, no powerful emotions or appetites are documented in their portraits.
Sokolowski thinks Warhol understood that both our society and the Chinese were consumer cultures interested in what we own, what we sell, and what we value from a financial point of view.
The Andy Warhol Museum receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
www.carnegiemuseums.org /cmag/bk_issue/2003/janfeb/feat1.html   (1343 words)

  
 Eye of the Art - Andy Warhol: The Pope of Pop
Warhol erased the lines between Fine and Commercial Art and forced the world to consider a new perspective that it, subconsciously, had already embraced.
In 1968, Warhol was shot two to three times by a fanatical woman, Valerie Solanis, who claimed at her arrest that “He had too much control over my Life.” The truth of the matter was that he had ignored her and her radical organization, SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men).
On Febuary 22,1987, Warhol succumbed to heart failure, and as a consequence of a badly executed gall bladder operation.
www.eyeoftheart.com /articles/Art_Masters/AndyWarhol   (1032 words)

  
 The Warhol - What's On - Permanent Collections
Warhol, his entourage of Superstars and his silver-painted studio -- known as the Factory -- became world-famous.
The death and disaster paintings of 1962-63 are among the most powerful and disturbing expressions of Warhol's constant fascination with, and injury and death -- themes which permeate his work and are present in even the most beautiful of his portraits.
Andy Warhol started painting portraits on commission in the early 1960s, and this developed into a significant aspect of his career.
www.warhol.org /whats_on/perm_collections.html   (574 words)

  
 Hartford Advocate: Star Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Warhol, who grew up as a frail child in a room surrounded by movie posters and who then created himself as the center of his own private movie studio, was simply doing in public something that all of us are doing secretly, one way or another.
Warhol was even known to work at a soup kitchen at the Church of the Heavenly Rest.
His mother was very pious, and several years after Warhol came to New York in 1945 to study art, his mother moved to New York and lived with him for the rest of her life.
old.hartfordadvocate.com /articles/warhol.html   (3115 words)

  
 COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION Personal Cosmic Game Report
Warhol's succession of so-called "superstars" was an ironic mimicry of the exploitative and disposable nature of the American culture.
Warhol appeared to have intuitively understood what the German philosopher Hegel discovered a century earlier: that man's basic desire is the quest for recognition.
Warhol describes her as "popular with the press because she had a freak name, purple hair, and incredibly long tongue, and a mini-rap about the intellectual meaning of the underground movies." She appears in **** ("High Ashbury" section, 1966) and I, A Man (1967).
www.cosmicbaseball.com /awes_game.html   (2367 words)

  
 Superstar (celebrity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Superstar is a term used to refer to a celebrity who has great popular appeal and is widely-known, prominent or successful in some field.
According to Roger Callois, superstars are created by the interplay between “mass media, free enterprise, and competition.” Superstars are produced by a mixture of effort by the actors or atheletes and chance (the luck of winning, due to the many arbitrary factors influencing sports, film releases, etc.).
Superstar museums are able to use the popular appeal of their location and art holdings to produce their own books, videos, and television specials, which adds an additional revenue stream and further reinforces the public’s awareness of the museum.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Superstar   (1641 words)

  
 Wired News: The History of Celebrity
Warhol, on the other hand, was mesmerized by the camera from childhood.
Warhol's persistent, if unprobing, fascination with the famous (the artist as groupie), his relentless self-promotion, and deliberately superficial comments on art and life made him an irritating subject to critique.
Without Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, oversized mass-produced portraits, car crash films, and, yes, his hollow Polaroids, the art of sixties would be oddly bereft, for he not only focused on commercialism of the time but embodied it in all its faux glamour and boredom.
www.wired.com /news/culture/1,21237-1.html   (799 words)

  
 Andy Warhol Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
Marilyn 1967 Andy Warhol serigraph on paper sheet: 36 x 36 in.
The Andy Warhol Museum and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University invite you...
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was fascinated by the face.
www.absolutearts.com /masters/w/warhol-andy.html   (694 words)

  
 PrideSource: 'Superstar in a Housedress'
An exotic clique, their job was to star in the films of Andy Warhol, to accompany him and adorn his arm in the avant-garde social circles he traveled in and to help him exude an aura of, well, fabulousness.
Warhol eventually cast Curtis in his films "Flesh" and "Women in Revolt," and Curtis continued writing shows, such as "Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit," "Vain Victory: the Vicissitudes of the Damned" and 1972's "Americka Cleopatra," in which he cast Harvey Fierstein to play his mother.
Warhol didn't make the funeral, which was quite the affair.
www.pridesource.com /article.shtml?article=12770   (892 words)

  
 Books about Andy Warhol and the Factory from The Bomp Bookshelf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
But Warhol's judolike feints, in which questioners, tipped over by the weight of their preconceptions, are left clutching at thin air, are less about concealing anything than they are about adding intrigue and tension‹entertainment value, if you will‹to an inherently absurd and artificial situation.
Try as his he might here, his weakly supported insinuations of Warhol as a cold and manipulative character are more a reflection on the authors own feelings of insecurity, rather than their being any intrinsic truth in the matter.
Trying to account for Warhol's attractiveness and the fact that he remained famous for 25 years, not just 15 minutes, she cites his enigmatic quality, his insistence on taking the mystery out of art, and his treatment of everyone with the same compelling immediacy.
www.bomp.com /BompbooksWarhol.html   (3681 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | I Shot Andy Warhol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
THE SHOOTING of pop artist Andy Warhol by the unhinged feminist-separatist Valerie Solanas is, weirdly, given cinematic endorsement in director/writer Mary Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol.
Solanas finished her life homeless in San Francisco, dying early of pneumonia; Warhol, shaken by the assault, went on to find himself a better class of parasites to hang around with.
Warhol is a lonely child at his own birthday party, while Solanas radiates a different feeling of neglect--it's a party, and you weren't invited.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.16.96/warhol-9620.html   (471 words)

  
 nat finkelstein - Andy Warhol factory photos
Here are images of Warhol which he would not be pleased with, the familiar silver wig swapped for dark grey and that often-expressionless face stuffing itself with pizza.
Warhol's 'superstars' Edie Sedgewick, daughter of a wealthy Californian couple and the German model Nico, pout and preen while the beautiful poet, Gerard Melanga entertains.
Finklestein is reputed to have had a 'on/off' relationship with Warhol and it is his lack of sycophantic reverence that gives these photographs their edge.
www.warhols.com /finkbody.htm   (321 words)

  
 INTERVIEW: Public Consumption; Fremonts Cook Up "Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story"
With an unprecedented access to archival footage, audio taped recordings and the still spirited sexagenarian recounting her past relationship with Warhol and her own art; and her current disturbing obsessions with food, ceramic pugs, and lung x-rays, the Fremonts' documentary is a vivid glimpse into her own gluttonous life and the Warhol world.
Brigid was one of the true "Superstars," and she was closest to Andy for the longest period of time.
The "Superstars" actors and actresses went on to self-destruct or whatever, but of all the things Brigid did in her life, she was a survivor.
www.indiewire.com /people/int_Fremont_Vince_010504.html   (2021 words)

  
 Andy Warhol on American Masters (Screenhead)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Warhol's mother, Julia, is revealed to have had a major influence on her son's development as an artist.
Warhol also does some serious work but finds himself rejected by the influential artists and gallery owners of New York City in the Fifties.
It is during this time that Warhol creates one of his main styles, the use of repeating images as a main motif of his painting and sculpture.
www.screenhead.com /reviews/andy-warhol-on-american-master.html   (615 words)

  
 Edie Sedgwick
The factory was used by Warhol, and his assistants, to produce silk-screens during the day and for holding parties at night.
Warhol told her that he was not making much money from them, but Edie had been told that she could expect to earn much more - even by moving away from the factory.
Warhol was reeling from her departure, but publicly denied any feelings for Edie whatsoever.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews/ediesedgwick.htm   (1004 words)

  
 Andy Warhol 1966
Andy Warhol was invited to speak at the annual banquet of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry at the Delmonico Hotel.
Warhol protested that he wasn't making any money with the films and that she had to be patient.
Warhol's entourage included the counter-culture journalist, John Wilcock, who would later write The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol, consisting of interviews with many of Warhol's superstars.
www.warholstars.org /chron/1966.html   (5019 words)

  
 Critique du film Chelsea Girls
Onscreen are the friends and hangers-on Warhol dubbed "superstars": Ondine, Nico, International Velvet, Gerard Malanga, Ingrid Superstar, Eric Emerson, Mary Woronov (Hanoi Hannah) and others.
Warhol's method was to turn the camera on and let it run until a reel was spent.
Projecting two reels side by side was the nearest thing to editing that Warhol did in the films he shot himself.
www.er.uqam.ca /nobel/k15125/505032a2002/site_warhol/critique.htm   (588 words)

  
 B12 Partners Solipsism: Andy Warhol Exhibit
Andy Warhol was one of the first American artists to investigate this cultural obsession, in a body of silkscreen paintings created in the mid-1960s that drew their source materials from the magazines, films, and newspapers of American postwar consumer culture.
Focusing exclusively on the period between 1962 and 1964, the exhibition takes as its starting point the moment in Warhol's career when he shifted his practice from the handpainted to the mechanical reproduction of the photo silkscreen process.
The exhibition is accompanied by Warhol’s “Screen Tests,” source materials, films of Warhol's “superstars,” the film “Elvis at Ferus,” documenting his show at the Ferus Gallery, and a fully illustrated catalogue.
www.b12partners.net /mt/archives/2006/03/andy_warhol_exhibit.html   (388 words)

  
 Creative Loafing Atlanta
Like many of Warhol and Morrissey's film projects, (Flesh, Heat), Trash is concerned with the gross underpinnings of beauty and glamour.
Warhol's superstars were the attention-starved five-and-dime divas of Manhattan's underground who would submit to any indignity for that fleeting 15 minutes of limelight.
Spawned by Warhol's culture-crashing Factory, Morrissey's films were a pop art-fueled attempt to derail consumer culture and cornball hippiedom alike.
atlanta.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:304   (362 words)

  
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Together, they were for Warhol "the last of the great Bohemians." Their films Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations (1966) and Andy Warhol (1965) have in common a lyric lightness and a love for jolting visual rhythms.
Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations is a portrait of Warhol's famous installation of floating silver helium-filled balloons at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1966.
Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress (Chelsea Girls) Marie Menken.
www.eai.org /eai/tape.jsp?itemID=8361   (1517 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties: Books: Steven Watson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Watson follows Warhol's "superstars" on their largely tragic course from childhood, self discovery, and social rejection to brief notoriety, momentary creative fulfillment, and graphic self destruction.
Warhol, by then a multimillionaire, was able to move on and away from the detritus of the Sixties, enjoying prestige and celebrity the world over.
Factory Made: Warhol And The Sixties is an informative guide which documents the history of his achievement, surveying the lives of factory members interviewed for feature herein and providing insights into the collaborative artworks produced by their interactions.
www.amazon.com /Factory-Made-Sixties-Steven-Watson/dp/0679423729   (2089 words)

  
 Andy Warhol 1
In Popism, Warhol, via Pat Hackett, said that the reason that he made Sleep was because he thought sleeping was becoming obsolete as everybody was up all the time because of the amphetamine ("speed") they were taking.
Giorno's comments about Warhol's reputation as a shoe fetishist were due, in part, to the work that Warhol did as a commercial illustrator prior to becoming a pop artist.
The first footage that Warhol shot was ruined because he had not rewound the camera properly and had to shoot it again.
www.warholstars.org /warholfilm/warholfilm1.html   (531 words)

  
 Andy Warhol
In 1963 Warhol established a work space in a vacant firehouse – a hook and ladder company – on East 87th Street, and later that same year moved his studio to 231 East 47th Street, the space which came to be known as the Factory.
Warhol had become a regular at the Film-makers' Co-op and the individual Screen Tests – 4-minute close-up shots of motionless subjects facing a stationary camera – were shown there weekly under the title Andy Warhol Serial.
Warhol had used the same type of camera for his 8-hour epic, Empire (his first “sound” movie without sound), but he employed it now for a number of “dramatic” collaborations with “scriptwriters” Chuck Wein and Ronald Tavel, the latter from the Theater of the Ridiculous.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/warhol.html   (2343 words)

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