Andy Warhol And The Can That Sold The World

Gary Indiana narrates the life of the extraordinary and controversial artist and sets his seminal work in the context of a turbulent, revolutionary age. He tells the story of the deeply bizarre life out of which emerged Warhol's groundbreaking concept: massive - and massively influential - silk screens of one of the world's most ordinary objects. Indiana, who knew Warhol and who remains friends with members of his brilliant, chaotic circle, explores how the imagery of Soup Cans functioned both in Warhol's personal life and in the aesthetic and intellectual world he inhabited. Indiana has used an iconic work of art to tell the story, warts and all, of an artist who deliberately became an icon himself.