A beautiful volume that sheds light on a less well-known part of Warhol's oeuvre, Andy Headshots shows the artist turning his artistry and intelligence towards portrait-making. Like much of Warhol's best work, these snapshots play against a world of images and signatures where the authentic version of an individual is seemingly nonexistent.
The book explores the dynamic relationship between Andy Warhol and Elizabeth Taylor, highlighting her status as a cinematic icon and muse for Warhol's art. It delves into the dramatic and charismatic life of Taylor, showcasing over fifty of Warhol's silk-screen portraits that capture her evolution from a child star to a legendary actress. Through an examination of their friendship in the 1970s and 1980s, the work emphasizes the enduring impact of both Taylor's persona and Warhol's innovative artistry.
A portrait based on the author's access to the Reagan family shares information about the marriage between Ronald and Nancy, Ronald Reagan's modest childhood in Illinois, and Nancy Reagan's carefully cultivated social connections.
Written by a former editor of Warhol's celebrity-celebrating Interview magazine and packed with names, this hard-hitting memoir presents an insider's look at the "Pope of Pop Art," Andy Warhol (1928-1987), whose eclectic oeuvre is comparable to Picasso's or Pollock's in its impact on modern art and culture. While examining Warhol's personality, struggles, and achievements, this book presents its subject with a clarity that is both unsparing and compassionate, disillusioned and inspired. Holy Terror invites readers to revisit the sex, drugs, parties, discos, and New York art scene that dominated the 1970s and 1980s. Colacello's memoir is an acutely perceived portrait of the artist who radicalized the ways in which society views art.
Out documents the decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS in Manhattan. As the editor of Andy Warhol's Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob Colacello recorded this life of art openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, dinner parties, charity balls and after-hours clubs; he wrote about them in a monthly column called "Out." In 1975, Colacello began snapping photographs, too: Henry Kissinger holding forth at a dinner party, or Bianca Jagger letting loose at Studio 54. Colacello was "an accidental photographer". Some subjects were: Diana Vreeland, Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere, Cher, Raquel Welch, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and always Warhol himself. Space in Interview was limited, so only a handful of Colacello's pictures were published each month. Most of those collected in Out have never been seen before