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Fame

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241339800

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • Dimensions: 160mm x 5mm x 112mm

  • Weight: 48g

  • RRP: £1.00

Fame

'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'

The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, fame and beauty.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241339800

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • Dimensions: 160mm x 5mm x 112mm

  • Weight: 48g

  • RRP: £1.00

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About the Author

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked as a commercial artist throughout the 1950s before emerging as a key proponent of the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. His his famous works include the paintings Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyns, and the film Chelsea Girls. He also published the books The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again) and POPism. Warhol died in 1987.

Andy Warhol

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