Warhol's muses : the artists, misfits, and superstars destroyed by the Factory fame machine

Leamer, Laurence, author.

Book

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2025]

©2025

xix, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Provides an account of the artist Andy Warhol and his relationships with the ten women he deemed his "superstars"--Baby Jane Holzer, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Ultra Violet, Viva, Brigid Berlin, Ingrid Superstar, International Velvet, Mary Woronov, and Candy Darling--beginning in 1964 and culminating four years later when Warhol was shot and almost killed.

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987 -- Friends and associates.

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987 -- Relations with women.

Holzer, Jane, 1940-

Sedgwick, Edie.

Nico, 1938-1988.

Ultra Violet.

Viva, 1938-

Berlin, Brigid.

Superstar, Ingrid.

International Velvet, 1950-

Woronov, Mary.

Darling, Candy, 1944-1974.

Andy Warhol's Factory (New York, N.Y.)

Artists -- United States -- Biography.

Biographies.

Prologue: June 1968 -- Riding the whirlwind -- Party of the decade: April 1964 -- Strutting her stuff: June 1964 -- There is always a price -- Truth, naked and otherwise -- "The times they are a-changin'" -- The youthquaker loses her way -- Nights of amphetamine dreams -- The long goodbye: December 1965 -- The bone crusher -- A fallen debutante -- Band-aids are not just for wounds -- Come on light my fire -- Up your ass and other niceties -- Lonesome cowboys riding high -- The doors are locked: June 1968 -- The last superstar -- The dying swan -- The eternal mystery -- Just another party -- Afterword: Lives.

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