从汤罐到汽车撞车，安迪•沃霍尔的早期作品都在这本带插图的文集中被重新探讨，这些文章来自各种学者，作家和艺术家。在这本具有启发性的文章合集（在朱美克斯博物馆举办的一次展览的配套出版物）中，沃霍尔和他的艺术作品阐明了乌托邦的承诺和亨利•卢斯（Henry Luce）所说的“美国世纪”的阴暗面。斯图尔特•摩根（Stuart Morgan）探讨了作为公共人物和私下里的安迪•沃霍尔；芭芭拉•克鲁格（Barbara Kruger）探讨了人们对他作品的两极化反应。理查德•普林斯（Richard Prince）对自己和他更**的前任进行了比较。其他作家，艺术家和学者则展示了对作为普通人和艺术家的沃霍尔的想法和反应。这本合集从头到尾用了大量沃霍尔**和鲜为人知的作品的插图进行说明，更加清晰地聚焦了这位艺术家为了解他所居住的世界而进行的个人努力。

Andy Warhol embodied many of the paradoxes of postwar America. Emerging as a successful commercial artist during the heyday of Madison Avenue, Warhol was obsessed with consumer objects and the production of fame. His early work reveals his fascination with Hollywood stars, everyday household products, disasters, car crashes, and the Kennedy assassination. In this provocative and stimulating collection of essays, Warhol and his art illuminate the utopian promise and the dark side of what Henry Luce called the American Century. Stuart Morgan considers the public and private Andy Warhol; Barbara Kruger looks at the polarized responses to his work; Richard Prince offers a wry comparison between himself and his more famous predecessor; and other writers, artists and scholars contribute their own thoughts and reactions to Warhol the man and artist. Illustrated throughout with a wide-ranging series of illustrations of Warhol's famed and lesser-known works, this collection brings into clearer focus the artist's personal struggles to make sense of the world he inhabited.