{"id":10669,"date":"2020-05-05T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2020-05-17T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T00:21:38","slug":"man-myth-warhol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/05\/man-myth-warhol\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Myth Warhol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Observer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Biography \u2018Warhol\u2019 Separates the Man From the Myth<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0David D’Arcy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andy in Studio, New York, Union Square, 1976.\u00a0Michael Childers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Warhol<\/em><\/a>, by Blake Gopnik<\/a>, begins moments after the militant feminist and Factory hanger-on Valerie Solanas shot the artist in June 1968. Warhol, then 39, lost his heartbeat and a lot of blood, and had gone into cardiac arrest. A bullet that passed through his body punctured a lung. It was thanks to an Italian surgeon who happened to be visiting another patient that the presumed DOA was saved.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gopnik\u2019s staggering description of opening up the Warhol\u2019s chest reads more like a slaughterhouse dismemberment than anything medical.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\u00a0Andy Warhol<\/a>\u00a0(1928-87), who attended church every week, coming out alive was a miracle. By that fall, despite painful permanent damage to his stomach and esophagus, he turned the slashes on his body into a fashion joke\u2014\u201cI\u2019m so scarred I look like a Dior dress,\u201d he said upon returning to work. Richard Avedon photographed his lacerated midriff as if Warhol were St. Sebastian\u2014a martyr who survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Observer New Biography \u2018Warhol\u2019 Separates the Man From the Myth By\u00a0David D’Arcy Warhol, by Blake Gopnik, begins moments after the militant feminist and Factory hanger-on Valerie Solanas shot the artist in June 1968. Warhol, then 39, lost his heartbeat and a lot of blood, and had gone into cardiac arrest. A bullet that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}