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Paperback: 276 pages
Publisher: Harvest; First Edition edition (April 6, 1977)
If you love Andy, then this book is for you. Even if you don't love Andy this book is an easy page turner. I found myself having a hard time putting it down. Read it while tanning a couple summers ago after a friend had let me borrow it. Few months later I was craving the easy read and ordered it for myself!
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Not as good as The Andy Warhol Diaries, but still enjoyable. I love it when he told stories and this book has less of that than the other one, but definitely some funny stuff in this one. If you like Andy Warhol, you should definitely check it out.
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25 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Andy's response to an excess of abstract art was Pop Art.
Andy's response to an excess of abstract philosophy was Pop Philosophy.
This book is not so much about Andy Warhol as it is about Warhol making philosophy pop. To make philosophy pop, Andy shared his observations and values, just as to make art pop, Andy shared the Campbell soup he enjoyed so often.
Philosophy has been abstract for so long, we had forgotten it could be anything else. It had belonged to academicians for so long, we had forgotten it could belong to anyone else.
Andy worked with the topics of abstract philosophy, such as love, beauty, time, death, economics and art ... but he rendered them pop by talking about them the way ordinary people talk about them. Not that Andy seemed ordinary but what do you call concerns of pimples (in "Beauty"), not being able to shop on Sunday (in "Economics"), or waiting in line for movies (in "Time"). Views of Andy's but also acts of making topics previously owned by abstract philosophy into instances of pop philosophy.
Pop philosophy can also move beyond the limitations of stuffy abstract philosophy. Andy offers a chapter on something not to be found in academic philosophy: not "Power" but "Underwear Power". The same commercialism found in pop art can be found here in pop philosophy: "Buying is much more American than thinking..."
So philosophy needn't be just about thinking, it can be about our everyday lives: loving, working and buying underwear. Andy liked having loud music on when doing art so he wouldn't think too much. Perhaps thinking too much gets in the way of good philosophy. If your underwear fits well, there may be no need to work out a lengthy critique of dialectical reasoning.Read more ›
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this was certainly shallowness raised to the level of . . . pretty much shallowness, I thought. I did enjoy some of the portraits of people, and the fact that Warhol did not forget his origins, but I didn't find him a provocative or towering intellect.
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