Warhol by Blake Gopnik

Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography Kathryn Hughes The Guardian When critics attacked Andy Warhols Marilyn paintings as shallow the Pop artist was happy to present himself as shallower still He claimed that he silkscreened to avoid the hard work of painting although he was actually a meticulous workaholic in interviews he presented himself as a silly naif when in private he was the Paperback softback