Andy Warhol's Factory People is a three-part oral history that
tells the story of Warhol's famous 1960s Silver Factory as told by
the friends, superstars, and foes who worked with, partied with,
filmed with, and slept with Andy from 1964 to 1968 in the Factory.
Book I Welcome to the Silver Factory, Book II Speeding into the
Future, Book III Your 15 Minutes are Up In Book III, the Silver
Factory era comes to an end in 1967-68. Andy Warhol. Ever wonder
what all the fuss was (and still is) about? So much has been
written about this art colossus-his obsession with celebrity, his
sloppy silk screens of Marilyn and Liz and Brando, his endless
Campbell soup cans and Coca Cola bottles, his mind-numbing
movies-that there are those who feel his fifteen minutes of fame
should have been up long ago. Instead, he has become a lasting icon
of popular taste. As the New Yorker's art critic Peter Schjeldahl
wrote in his review of the Metropolitan Museum's huge 2012 show of
Warhol and his impact on 60 other artists, "Like it or not, we are
all Warholian." The familiar soup cans, along with the cokes, cows,
fatal car crashes, flowers and Brillo boxes, were all prominently
featured in our three-hour documentary, Andy Warhol's Factory
People, which spans the years l964 to l968, arguably the artist's
busiest and most creative period. As were the familiar superstars
he made famous, superstars like Viva and Edie Sedgwick and
Ultra-Violet and Nico and the Velvet Underground. But what set
apart our film, and now distinguishes our book from the many other
books about Warhol, is that we also tracked down the forgotten
Factory people, the remarkable and often bizarre assortment of
people who were behind Warhol's unprecedented rise to spectacular
success. These people often paid a price for linking their
destinies to the gifted but frustrated graphic artist who decided
in the early sixties to "start Pop art" because he "hated" Abstract
Expressionism.
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