Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up

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Written by a former editor of Warhol's celebrity-celebrating Interview magazine and packed with names, this hard-hitting memoir presents an insider's look at the "Pope of Pop Art," Andy Warhol (1928-1987), whose eclectic oeuvre is comparable to Picasso's or Pollock's in its impact on modern art and culture. While examining Warhol's personality, struggles, and achievements, this book presents its subject with a clarity that is both unsparing and compassionate, disillusioned and inspired. Holy Terror invites ...

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Overview

Written by a former editor of Warhol's celebrity-celebrating Interview magazine and packed with names, this hard-hitting memoir presents an insider's look at the "Pope of Pop Art," Andy Warhol (1928-1987), whose eclectic oeuvre is comparable to Picasso's or Pollock's in its impact on modern art and culture. While examining Warhol's personality, struggles, and achievements, this book presents its subject with a clarity that is both unsparing and compassionate, disillusioned and inspired. Holy Terror invites readers to revisit the sex, drugs, parties, discos, and New York art scene that dominated the 1970s and 1980s. Colacello's memoir is an acutely perceived portrait of the artist who radicalized the ways in which society views art.

Andy Warhol, the Twentieth century's ultimate celebrity, is seen as he really was.

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Editorial Reviews

New York Daily News
Perceptive, intuitive, and amusing... If you think you've read everything about Andy you better at least add Bob Colacello's. It's personal, candid, and compelling.
— Liz Smith
The New York Times
Of the reminiscences that have appeared to date, Colacello's Holy Terror is certainly the best-written and most killingly observed. Dissecting Warhol with an amiable but sharp wit, Mr. Colacello also manages to give him more of a human dimension than anyone else has suceeded in doing.
Liz Smith
Perceptive, intuitive, and amusing...if you think you've read everything about Andy, you better at least add Bob Colacello's.
— The Advocate
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780815410089
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
  • Publication date: 10/28/1999
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 560
  • Product dimensions: 6.08 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 1.17 (d)

Meet the Author

Bob Colacello worked at Andy Warhol's "Factory" from 1970-1983 and has contributed regularly to Vanity Fair since 1984. He divides his time among Los Angeles, New York City, and Amagansett, New York.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Prologue: I Quit! 1
1. The Beginning 4
2. Old Country, New World 10
3. New York, New York 21
4. The Rightest of the Right-Hand Men 33
5. Back to the Future with Rita and Elvis 39
6. Trashing Through Germany and London 47
7. Spring '71 54
8. Guns and Prayers 66
9. Women in Revolt 76
10. Frederick of Union Square 87
11. Meanwhile, the Parties Multiplied 101
12. A Pile of Rocks 114
13. Enter Bianca, Exit Andrea 121
14. Sylvia Miles in Heat 129
15. Nothing Serious 137
16. Roman Candles 145
17. It's All Work 163
18. Factory Disputes 176
19. Candy Dies 186
20. The Jewels of Paulette 193
21. Paris (and Philosophy) 202
22. Monte Carlo and HER 213
23. Ladies and Gentlemen, Etc. 221
24. New, Improved 233
25. A Small Work of Art 246
26. Portraits and Ads 258
27. Imelda 270
28. The Caviar Club 281
29. Playing Both Sides 293
30. Andy at the White House 302
31. Philosophy on Tour 308
32. Bad Behavior 320
33. On the Road Again 330
34. Sex, Lies, and Polaroids 337
35. The Life and Death of the Party 349
36. Politics and Dinner Parties 359
37. Falling Apart 369
38. Breaking Even 390
39. Conversations with Capote 398
40. Exposures (aka Social Disease) 416
41. Up There 437
42. Down There 456
43. Jon, Jean-Michel, Paige, and Sam 466
44. The End 482
Epilogue: Andy Is Everywhere 501
Index 505
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