The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol
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June 20, 2010
NEW YORK, NY.- On June 30th, Trela Media will be rereleasing The
Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol by John Wilcock, originally
published in 1971.
Village Voice and Interview co-founder John Wilcock was first drawn
into the milieu of Andy Warhol through filmmaker Jonas Mekas,
assisting on some of Warhol's early films, hanging out at his parties
and quickly becoming a regular at the Factory. "About six months
after I started hanging out at the old, silvery Factory on West 47th
Street," he recalls, "[Gerard] Malanga came up to me and asked, 'When
are you going to write something about us?'" Already fascinated by
Warhol's persona, Wilcock went to work, interviewing the artist's
closest associates, supporters and superstars. Among these were
Malanga, Naomi Levine, Taylor Mead, Ultra Violet, and Viva, all of
whom had appeared in the Warhol films; scriptwriter Ronnie Tavel, and
photographer Gretchen Berg; art dealers Sam Green, Ivan Karp, Eleanor
Ward and Leo Castelli, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Henry
Geldzahler; the poets Charles Henri Ford and Taylor Mead, and the
artist Marisol; and the musicians Lou Reed and Nico. Paul Morrissey
supplied the title: The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol is
the first oral biography of the artist.
Pitched against the colorful backdrop of the 1960s, the book
assembles a prismatic portrait of one of modern art's least knowable
artists during the early years of his fame. The Autobiography and Sex
Life is likely the most revealing portrait of Warhol, being composite
instead of singular; each of its interviewees offers a piece of the
puzzle that was Andy Warhol. This new edition corrects the many
errors of this long out-of-print book, and is beautifully designed in
a bright, Warholian palette. It features more than 120 images
(including original portraits of numerous Factory superstars by
Shunk-Kender ), plus illustrations, and film stillsincluding many
never seen before. This entertaining book is an in-depth and
provocative appreciation of a complex and prolific artist.
John Wilcock is a British-born writer who was a founding editor of
the Village Voice in 1955. In the 1960s he edited New York's first
underground newspaper The East Village Other, was an early editor of
the Los Angeles Free Press, and published his own influential
alternative tabloid, Other Scenes. Wilcock also founded and
co-published Interview magazine (in 1969) with Andy Warhol. He has
written more than thirty travel books and lives in Ojai, California.
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