Books

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1975. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book in Near Fine jacket. With a full-page sketch of a Campbell's soup can and signed in full by Warhol. A bright, fresh copy. Dust jacket with slight wear at the extremities, but presenting well overall. Part-memoir, part-satire, part-dialogue, part-assemblage of aphorisms, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol is as difficult to pin down as the subject itself. In between the paradoxical and musings, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol explores the artist's life, especially formative experiences from his youth and early career. But the result is far from an autobiographical interpretation of Andy Warhol, the human. Instead, as a contemporary New York Times review points out, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol "presents us with an enlarged mirror image (cool, clear, missing a dimension); he gives is surface" rather than depth. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.