This book is the visual testament to Andy Warhol at his funniest and most moving; it is America with its most astonishing contradictions. It is the important and beautiful work of the most American artist of the 20th century. From his early portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Elvis Presley, and Campbell's Soup to his most recent works of Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Donald Duck, Andy Warhol's twenty years as an internationally renowned artist have been nothing less than a passionate love affair with the United States. Thanks to the camera that never leaves his side, we now receive a love letter, a memoir, and an astonishing portrait of modern life: America. Culled from a decade of his archives, it is a work of dazzling insight, a book of strange beauty and enormous contradictions. Here we see the private lives of the rich and famous, today's young Americans with their sexy, muscular bodies, and the street world of America's poorest people.
