He coined the word superstar. And became one. He made fame more famous. Andy Warhol was synonymous with three decades of pop art, its glamour, new wave aesthetics, hype and fortune. SUPERSTAR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDY WARHOL, Chuck Workman's keen, mercurial documentary, peers into the
enigma of Warhol.
Warhol was gregarious — Halston said, "Andy would go to the opening of a drawer" — and, at least in the view of nearly everyone Workman interviews, a genius. He galvanized the art world with exemplars of fine art framed as commercial iconography. The name of the game was success, and the statement inherent in Warhol's work was a variation on "ha! ha! ...
Released:
1991
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins