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 inches) and comprising 624 pages, this enormous book is a chronology of Warhol's life, from birth to death, using photographs and artifacts from the Warhol and Warhol Foundation archives, as well as material from private sources. Featuring rare and previously unpublished images of the New York jet set over three decades, along with receipts, letters, documents, family photos, press clippings, and more, there is no better way to get to know the man behind 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 treasured possessions and ephemeral objects of an obsessive hoarder. Phaidon gained unprecedented access to public and private archives and collections, including the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Andy Warhol Museum, as well as the holdings of Warhol's collaborators, personal friends, and photographers from that era.
The book includes an astonishing quantity and variety of material, including: childhood photographs of Warhol and his family; the magazine page 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 1959 letter from the Museum of Modern Art in which the director of the museum's collections rejects a work of art that Warhol offered them as a gift; photographs of Warhol posing with Edie Sedgwick at a fashion shoot in New York; photographs of Warhol creating his famous silkscreen prints in his studio; personal letters from Mick Jagger and Liz Taylor to Warhol; Interview covers and photos of Warhol in the office working on the magazine; photos from Warhol's private exhibitions; a series of photos of Warhol...
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN: 9780714845401
Number of pages: 600
Binding: Hardcover.
