Andy: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol's silk-screen prints are the epitome of Pop Art, capturing consumerism and the cult of celebrity. Typex's Andy is a 568-page graphic novel that tells the complete life story of the iconic pop artist, from his working-class upbringing to the heights of his celebrity.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 568 pages
Publication date: 04 October 2018
Publisher: SelfMadeHero

From the thirty-two canvas Campbell's Soup Cans to the iconic Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol's silk-screen prints are the epitome of Pop Art: witty, gimmicky, and unafraid of repetition. Obsessed with consumerism and the cult of celebrity, Warhol exalted the surface of things – and yet he was a man of deep complexity.

In Andy, Typex captures the remarkable life of the king of Pop Art, from his working-class upbringing in Pittsburgh to the dizzying heights of his celebrity. Spanning a period that began with the talkies and ended with the advent of house music, it is also a memorable portrait of 20th-century pop culture and the stars who defined it: from Elvis to Greta Garbo, Truman Capote to Lou Reed.

Taking in Warhol's early career as a commercial illustrator, his relationship with the Velvet Underground, and the development of his own instantly recognisable style, Typex's Andy is an exhilarating portrait of a transcendent artist and a master self-publicist. Intensively researched, this 568-page graphic novel – with silver edgestain on the pages – is the first to tell the complete life story of the iconic pop artist.

Weight: 1628g
Dimension: 187 x 260 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781910593585