num_pages: 587
description: Based on the television documentary: A three-part oral history of the Pop Art sensations inner circle and their dazzling world of art drugs and drama. Featuring a new introduction by the author special to this collection this three-part companion volume to Emmy Awardwinning Catherine OSullivan Shorrs documentary Andy Warhols Factory People is an unprecedented expos of an exhilarating and tumultuous time in the 1960s New York City art worldtold by the artists actors writers musicians and hangers-on who populated and defined the Factory. Different [in] its avowed bottom-up approach: Warhol as a function of his followers is the idea. This time . . . its the interviews that tell the tale (Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times ). Welcome to the Silver Factory : In 1962 frustrated with advertising work Warhol sets up his legendary studio in an abandoned hat factory on Manhattans 47th Street. The Silver Factory quickly becomes the hub of Warhols creative endeavorsthe space where he constantly works while an ever-changing cast of characters and muses passes through with their own contributions. Speeding into the Future : In a peak period from 1965 through 1966 Warhol creates the notion of the It Girl with ingenuous debutante Edie Sedgwick; discovers Lou Reed the Velvet Underground and Nico the gorgeous chanteuse who becomes his next It Girl; and directswith Paul Morrisseyhis most commercially successful film the art house classic Chelsea Girls . Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up : By 1967 it seems that the Factory has outlived its fifteen minutes of fame. Superstars like Edie Sedgwick fall victim to drugs. Factory denizens have falling-outs with Warhol as do the Velvet Underground who are also caught up in disputes of their own. Into the chaos comes radical feminist Valerie Solanas who shoots Warhol and seriously injures him. He survivesbarelybut the artist and his art are forever changed.
language: English
title: Andy Warhol's Factory People: Welcome to the Silver Factory, Speeding into the Future, and Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up
publisher: Open Road Media