Warhol (book)

The book was first published in the United Kingdom as Warhol: A Life as Art in hardcover and e-book format by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, on March 5, 2020.[4] An audiobook narrated by Graham Halstead was first published by Penguin on April 16, 2020.[6]

The book was published unsubtitled as Warhol in the United States in hardcover, e-book and audiobook format by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, on April 28, 2020.[7][8]

The front cover of the book's dust jacket was designed by Allison Saltzman and features a photograph of Andy Warhol sitting in a chair in New York on February 27, 1968, photographed by Barton Silverman.[1]

At the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the book received a cumulative "Positive" rating based on 18 reviews: 4 "Rave" reviews, 10 "Positive" reviews, 3 "Mixed" reviews, and 1 "Pan" review.[9]

In its starred review, Kirkus Reviews called it "an immensely enjoyable book that blends snappy writing with careful exegeses of the artist's influences and techniques."[10]

Publishers Weekly gave the book a favorable review, writing, "Gopnik's exhaustive but stylishly written and entertaining account is Warholian in the best sense—raptly engaged, colorful, open-minded, and slyly ironic."[11]

Writing for Harper's Magazine, Gary Indiana panned the book, calling it "elephantine, ill-written, nearly insensible".[12]

The book was also reviewed by Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times,[5] Luc Sante in The New York Times,[13] Kathryn Hughes in The Guardian,[14] Stephen Metcalf in the Los Angeles Times,[15] Roger Lewis in The Times,[16] Dominic Green in The Wall Street Journal,[17] and Paul Alexander in The Washington Post.[18]

• Warhol: A Life as Art. London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1.[4]
• Warhol. New York: Ecco. April 28, 2020. ISBN 978-0-06-229839-3.[7]

• Warhol at Harpercollins.com