Andy Warhol Giant Size is a spectacular and comprehensive visual biography of the life and career of Andy Warhol. Measuring 420 x 320 mm (16 1/2 x 12 5/8 in) and spanning 624 pages, this massive book chronicles Warhol’s life from birth to death, utilizing photos and artifacts from the Warhol and Warhol Foundation archives, as well as material from private sources. Featuring rare and previously unseen images of the New York jet set spanning three decades, along with receipts, letters, documents, family photos, and press clippings, there’s no better way to get to know the man beneath the wig.
Giant is the definitive scrapbook about one of the most important figures in 20th-century art. Beginning with the record of Andrew Warhola's birth on June 8, 1928, in Pittsburgh, the book is filled with the prized possessions and ephemera of an obsessive hoarder. Phaidon was granted unprecedented access to public and private archives and collections, including the Andy Warhol Foundation and The Andy Warhol Museum, as well as to the holdings of Warhol's collaborators, personal friends, and contemporary photographers.
The book includes an astonishing amount and variety of material, including: childhood photographs of Warhol and his family; the spread showing the first article he illustrated for Glamour magazine when he arrived in New York in 1949; drawings of gold shoes he created in the 1950s; a letter from the Museum of Modern Art dated 1959 in which the museum's director of collections rejected a work of art Warhol offered them as a gift; photographs of Warhol posing with Edie Sedgwick at a New York fashion shoot; photographs of Warhol creating his famous silkscreens in his studio; personal letters from Mick Jagger and Liz Taylor to Warhol; covers of Interview and photos of Warhol in his office working on the magazine; photos of Warhol's private exhibitions; a series of photos of Warhol...
