This book is large, trimmed down from 20,000 original diary pages, but still too large for a quick read. It almost takes extra time to read the diaries, a lot cannot be absorbed all at once. It is best ingested and enjoyed in small doses. Though he is chiefly viewed as a monumental pop-art icon, Andy Warhol was truly a man of many talents. But his component parts don't necessarily match up.
Drawings are the key to many artists' souls.
They are personal, immediate, and limiting. Never more so than in the case of Andy Warhol has a book of drawings so brought an artist's humanity forward. Warhol was a prolific drawer, and draw he could. Among these 248 color plates rest some wonderful little drawings that stand entirely on their own merit, not their creator's fame. Drawings, 1942-1987 offers rare insight into one of the century's strangest and most interesting artists.