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POPism: The Warhol Sixties

Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPismis Warhol's personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s and a look back at the relationships that made up the scene at the Factory, including his relationship with Edie Sedgewick, focus of the upcoming film Factory Girl.In the detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, Warhol tells all—the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution.

Subject
biographyhistory
Themes
artmoviesmusic
Setting
1980snew yorkUSAcollege
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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