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Andy Warhol Biography
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1928 |
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Born: in Pittsburgh, PA
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1945 - 1949 |
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Studied Pictural Design at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA
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1949 |
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Moved to New York after graduation and worked as a commercial artist
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1952 |
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First individual show at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote
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1956 |
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First group show at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1968 |
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Valerie Solanis, founder and sole member of SCUM nearly kills artist
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1969 |
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Founded Interview Magazine
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1978 |
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Enrolled in the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, NY
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1982 |
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Created cable television show "Andy Warhol's TV"
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1986 |
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Created cable television show "Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes" for MTV
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1987 |
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Died: in New York, NY
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1989 |
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Museum of Modern Art exhibited a major retrospective of his works
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1994 |
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Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, PA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009 - 2010
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"Deeply Superficial: Warhol's Voyeurism", Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA (solo)
"Andy Warhol in the 1980s", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
"Faces of Warhol, Focus Exhibition in Three Installments", Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (solo)
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2009
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"Le grand monde d'Andy Warhol", Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (solo)
"Andy Warhol Portraits", Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Through a Glass Starkly", George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ (solo)
"Warhol Live", The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (solo)
"Andy Warhol, Mr. America", Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia (solo)
"Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol", The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
"Warhol TV", La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Pop Politics", Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (solo)
"The Prints of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)", San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, CA (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Von Marilyn Bis Mao", Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenberg, Germany (solo)
"Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Andy Warhol", The Museum Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
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2008 - 2009
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"Warhol Live", The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Crossroads", Domus Artium (DA2), Salamanca, Spain (solo)
"Art for Everyday: Andy Warhol from Object to Practice and Back Again", Museu De Arte Contemporanea Niteroi, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Cowboys and Indians", Mint Museum of Art Charlotte, NC 9solo)
"Andy Warhol: 15 Weeks of Fame", Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas (solo)
"Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered", The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
"Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends", Mint Museum of Art Charlotte, NC (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Pop Politics", Currier Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (solo)
"Warhol Presents", Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
"Andy Warhol: Polaroid Portraits", Galerie Clic, St. Bartheleny, French West Indies (solo)
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2008
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"Andy Warhol, Stereo Types", Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany (solo)
"Warhol: 15 Min/24 FPS", University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Still-Life Polaroids", Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (solo)
"The Eternal Now: Warhol and the Factory: '63-68", Ikon Gallery Birmingham, UK (solo)
"Rapid Exposure: Warhol in Series, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (solo)
"Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds", Loyala University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
"Canis Major: Warhol's Dogs and Cats (and other party animals)", The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
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2007 - 2008
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"Andy Warhol Retrospective", Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (solo)
"Self-Portrait exhibition", La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
"Andy Warhol: Larger than Life", Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (solo)
"Other Voices, Other Rooms", The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Silent Spring: Warhol's Endangered Species and Vanishing Animals", Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ (solo)
"Andy Warhol", Centro Cultural de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru Lima, Peru (solo)
"Andy Warhol Exhibit, New World of Coca-Cola Museum, Atlanta, GA (solo)
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2007
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"Andy Warhol Retrospective", The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
"Andy Warhol Disaster Prints", Kampa Museum Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
"Pop Art 1960's - 2000's", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Andy Warhol Presents", University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
"Andy Warhol's Dream America", Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, OH (solo)
"Andy Warhol - Shadows and other signs of life", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France (solo)
"Portraits", Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Factory Work: Warhol, Wyeth, and Basquiat", Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
"Andy Warhol and Minimal Art", Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
"Andy Warhol Retrospective", Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (solo)
"Warhola Becomes Warhol - Andy Warhol: Early Work", Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (solo)
"Pop Goes The West: Featuring Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters and Andy Warhol's", Cowboys and Indians Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
"Andy Warhol's Dream America", Nevada Museum of Art Reno, Nevada (solo)
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2006 - 2007
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"Prints of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back again)", Kampa Museum Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
"Time Capsule 64", The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
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2006
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"Warhol's World", Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
"Man's Best Friend", Lococo Fine Art, St. Louis, MO
"Andy Warhol: Vanishing Animals", Medium SARL, St. Barthelemy, French West Indies (solo)
"Andy Warhol-Drawings", JGM. Galerie, Paris, France
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2005
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"Andy Warhol Self-Portraits", Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
"Small Drawings of Children & Dolls", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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2004
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"Andy Warhol - Selbstportraits", Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (solo)
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
"The Late Andy Warhol - The Late Work", Museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures", Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany (solo)
"Andy Warhol", Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Andy Warhol - LATE PAINTINGS", Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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2003
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"Andy Warhol - The Time Capsules", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
"Warhol - Screen Tests", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
"Ladies & Gentlemen, Sex Parts & Torsos", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"Cosmos, Colleges and Drawings", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"E. Fischl, M. Barceló, F. Clemente, A. Katz, P. Taaffe, A. Warhol", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne; TEFAF, Maastricht, Germany
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2002
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"Portrait Drawings/Sherrie Levine: Skulls", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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2001
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"Retrospective", Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
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2000
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"Headschots", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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1999
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"Modern Madonna", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"Photography", The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
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1998
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"Reframing Andy Warhol: Constructing American Myths, Heroes and Cultural Icons",The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, MD
"Knives", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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1997
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"Egg Paintings", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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1993
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"Andy Warhol: Abstract", Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Östereichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Östereich; IVAM, Valencia, Spain (solo)
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1992
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"Andy Warhol Polaroids 1971 - 1986", Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (travelled to London, Uk and Paris, France) (solo)
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1991
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"Andy Warhol's Video and Television", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1990
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"Andy Warhol: Films", IVAM, Valencia, Spain (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Cars-The Last Pictures", Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland (solo)
"The Prints of Andy Warhol", Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1989
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"Andy Warhol: A Retrospective", Hayward Gallery, London, UK (solo)
"Andy Warhol: Shadow Paintings", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1976
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Venice Biennale, Venize, Italy
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1970
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Museum of Contempary Art, Chicago, IL
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA (toured the US)
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1969
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Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
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1968
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Danemark
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1967
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Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
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1966
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Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
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1965
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
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1964
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Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Stable Gallery, New York, NY
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1963
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Fetus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1962
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Fetus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1952
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"Andy Warhol: Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote", Hugo Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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Selected Public Collections:
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Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Butler Institute of American Art, OH
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Norway
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Harvard University Art Museums, MA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseilles, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
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| Literature |
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2009
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Le Grand monde d'Andy Warhol (Exh. Cat.). Paris, France: RMN, 2009
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2008
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Aquin, Stephane, Lavigne Emma and Matt Wrbican. Warhol Live (Exh. Cat.). New York: Prestel, 2008
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2006
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Angell, Callie. Andy Warhol screen tests: the films of Andy Warhol: catalogue raisonné. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006
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2003
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Koestenbaum, Wayne. Andy Warhol. New York: Penguin, 2003
Watson, Steven. Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties. New York: Pantheon, 2003
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2002
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The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1: Paintings and Sculpture, 1961-1963. Edited by Georg Frei and Neil Printz. London: Phaidon, 2002
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2001
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Dillenberger, Jane D. The Religious Art of Andy Warhol. New York City: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001
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1999
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Schaffner, Ingrid. The Essential Andy Warhol. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999
Schmuckli, Claudia. Andy Warhol: The Last Supper (Exh. Cat.). New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1999
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1997
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Bockris, Victor. Warhol: The Biography. New York: Da Capo Press, 1997
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1996
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Stiles, Kristine; Peter Howard Selz. "Warhol in His Own Words". Theories and documents of contemporary art: a sourcebook of artists' writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996
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1994
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The Andy Warhol Museum. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1994
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1990
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Colacello, Bob. Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. New York: HarperCollins, 1990
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1989
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Guiles, Fred Lawrence. Loner at the ball: the life of Andy Warhol. London: Bantam Books, 1989
Bockris, Victor. The Life and Death of Andy Warhol. New York: Bantam Books, 1989
Finklestein, Nat. Andy Warhol: The Factory Years 1964-1967. New York: St. Martins Press, 1989
Mc Shine, Kynaston. Andy Warhol: A Retrospective. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989
O'Pray, Michael. (Ed.). Andy Warhol Film Factory. London, UK: British Film Institute, 1989
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1988
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Kornbluth, Jesse. Pre-Pop Warhol. New York: Panache Press, 1988
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1985
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Warhol, Andy. America/Andy Warhol. New York: Harper & Row, 1985
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1985
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Feldman/Schellmann. (Eds.). Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne. West Germany: Schellmann, 1985
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1983
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Ratcliff, Carter. Andy Warhol. New York: Cross River Press, 1983
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1980
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Warhol, Andy, Pat Hacket. POPism: the Warhol '60s. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980
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1975
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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1975
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1970
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Crone, Rainer. Andy Warhol. New York: Praeger, 1970
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