ON&BY Andy Warhol

The socio-cultural impact of Andy Warhol – painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, publisher, TV personality, socialite, graphic artist, collector, illustrator, rock impresario, photographer, model and author – is incalculable. A pioneer in virtually every media in which he worked – from his unmistakeable blotted-line advertising illustrations in the 1950s; to photography-based paintings of car wrecks and movie stars in the 1960s; to pre-Stonewall cult films that dared to explore sexually provocative subjects; to his re-invention of the celebrity magazine in the 1970s with Interview – Andy Warhol also influenced such contemporary staples as reality TV, computer art and the rock-gig light show. As the inventor of the Polaroid selfie and master of the tweet-like short epithet (‘It’s so nice to be invited to your own house by the person who’s renting it – you feel at home and you’re still making money’), Andy Warhol seems only to grow in cultural relevance in the twenty-first century.

Edited and introduced by art critic Gilda Williams, this volume brings together key Warhol writings such as a (a novel); THE Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again); Blue Movie; Exposures; POPism: The Warhol Sixties; America; Andy Warhol’s Party Book and The Andy Warhol Diaries alongside a selection of the most notable writers on Warhol’s life and work: Callie Angell, Saul Anton, Art & Language, Roland Barthes, Gregory Battcock, Gretchen Berg, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Bob Colacello, John Coplans, Douglas Crimp, Rainer Crone, Thomas Crow, Arthur C. Danto, Donna De Salvo, Jennifer Doyle, Trevor Fairbrother, Hal Foster, Michael Fried, Gérald Gassiot-Talabot, Anthony E. Grudin, Dave Hickey, Anthony Huberman, Frederic Jameson, Donald Judd, Stephen Koch, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lucy R. Lippard, Richard Meyer, Stuart Morgan, Glenn O’Brien, Barbara Rose, Robert Rosenblum, Gene Swenson, Paul Taylor, Simon Watney, Gilda Williams, Mary Woronov and Matt Wrbican