Wading through the reviews and extracts of Blake Gopnik’s eagerly anticipated Andy Warhol biography at the weekend, I began to suspect that Waldemar Januszczak of the London Sunday Times may just have the measure of this exhaustive work. “For all its weight and length,” Januszczak wrote, “Warhol: A Life As Art feels a tad premature. The next Warhol biographer hasn’t a hope of bringing more detail to the task, that’s been done. What they might bring is a truer perspective.
Interesting point. Gopnik’s book is certainly stuffed with detail. It is a book that, like the giant multi-volume biographies of Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne and any number of other artists, progresses in a painstakingly forensic manner, year by year, period by period, piece by piece. Along the way, Warhol’s reputation, or at least the one he studiously cultivated, is systematically demolished.
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