Starting from:
$9.99

$0

Andy Warhol FBI Files

1 reviews

Andy Warhol FBI Files

75 pages of FBI Files related to Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola, emerged from being a commercial artist in the 1950s to being the standard-bearer of the pop art movement of the 1960s. Warhol sought to make art of mass-produced and well-known images, then mass-producing that art. (1)

Andy Warhol's New York studio, "The Factory," became the center of his productions as a painter, photographer, filmmaker, and publisher. Andy Warhol may best be known for saying, "In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes." (2)

Warhol died in 1987 after having gallbladder surgery. (3)

The files chiefly concern the interstate transportation of obscene matter, an investigation of Andy Warhol sparked by his film Lonesome Cowboys. The film starring "Chelsea Girl" actress Susan Hoffman, AKA Viva, caught the attention of the FBI nearly as soon as it began filming. (4)

FBI agents were sent out to the Arizona shooting locations of the movie to canvass for information concerning this "hippy" western. On June 3, 1968, during the time Andy Warhol was editing Lonesome Cowboys, Warhol associate Valerie Solanas shot and nearly killed Warhol. Solanas was the founder and only member of SCUM, the Society for Cutting Up Men. (5)

The files contain the review of the film made by two FBI agents attending a screening at the San Francisco Film Festival. "There was no plot to the film and no development of characters' thought," wrote an agent. Despite two thumbs down from the FBI, Lonesome Cowboys won the best film award at the festival. (6)

Footnotes

(1) Andy Warhol's early career and transition to pop art are well-documented in Pop Art: A Critical History by Steven Henry Madoff.

(2) The quote "In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes" is attributed to Warhol in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)

(3) Warhol's death and medical history are detailed in Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up by Bob Colacello.

(4) The FBI's investigation into Lonesome Cowboys is outlined in declassified FBI files available at the BACM Research https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/pfpv/

(5) Valerie Solanas' attack on Warhol is discussed in I Shot Andy Warhol by Mary Harron.

(6) The FBI's review of Lonesome Cowboys and its reception at the San Francisco Film Festival are documented in FBI case files.

 

Also See

Paul Robeson FBI & British Intelligence Files, and Newspaper Articles

https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/paul-robeson-fbi-and-british-intelligence-files-and-newspaper-articles/

The Beatles FBI Files

https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/the-beatles-fbi-files/

Elvis Presley FBI, Military, Nixon White House Files

https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/elvis-presley-fbi-military-nixon-white-house-files/

Charlie Chaplin FBI British MI5 & Foreign and Commonwealth Office Files

https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/charlie-chaplin-fbi-british-mi5-and-foreign-and-commonwealth-office-files/

 Marilyn Monroe FBI Files

https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/marilyn-monroe-fbi-files/

More products