• Pop garnered a starred Kirkus review and acclaim from the New York Review of Books; reviews are forthcoming from the Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, the Village Voice, and USA Today, to name just a few.
• Not a day passes that Warhol isn’t referenced, either explicitly or implicitly. It’s no exaggeration to say that Andy Warhol is the most controversial and broadly influential American artist in history, no less an American icon than Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley—and a figure whose impact on our culture grows ever more relevant with the passage of time.
• Multiple books have been written about Andy Warhol but none accomplishes what Pop does—offering a readable, accessible narrative that takes Warhol’s art as seriously as his celebrity, one that will satisfy diehard fans as well as readers unfamiliar with the arc of Warhol’s story. The book focuses on the 1960s, the period when Warhol made his greatest art and served as inspiration for a turbulent generation of artists, musicians, actors and filmmakers.
• Pop represents a level of original research unparalleled in the history of Warhol scholarship. Scherman is among the first researchers to systematically excavate the Andy Warhol Museum Archives in Warhol’s home town of Pittsburgh. The book abounds with fresh revelations from hundreds of sources, many of them little-known, including a series of Factory audiotapes that reveal, in sparkling detail, the artist’s ‘60s milieu and personality. Scherman has also newly interviewed scores of people, many never-before approached.
• Tony Scherman provides the high culture; Dalton, who knew Warhol, the “low.” This book was eight years in the making.
• Beautifully designed, Pop includes sixteen pages of color artwork, and nearly fifty black and white photos throughout-many never-before-seen.
  

To his critics, he was the magus of a movement that debased high art and reduced it to a commodity. To his admirers, he is the most important artist since Picasso. Indisputably, Andy Warhol redefined the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and film, bending them to serve the purpose of his vision. Taking its subject from comic books, tabloids, Hollywood publicity shots, and supermarket aisles, Pop Art, with Warhol at the forefront and his Factory at its nexus, broke through the entrenched avant-garde of Abstract Expressionism, and razed the barrier between pop and culture, high and low. Beneath the deceptively simple surface of his silk screens, the old hierarchies of art collapsed. His techniques allowed Warhol to fix the viewer’s gaze on mass culture, and the teeming, exciting, vulgar new world of 1960s America.

Focusing on that influential decade, Pop disentangles the myths of Warhol—fraught with contradictions—from the man he truly was, and offers a vivid, entertaining, and provocative look at the legendary artist’s personal and artistic evolution, focusing on his most productive and innovative years. A detailed, insightful chronicle of his rise, as well as a critical examination of Warhol’s most important work, this groundbreaking book sheds light on a man who remains one of iconic figures of the twentieth century. Drawing on brand new sources—including extensive new interviews and insight from those who knew him best—Pop offers the most dynamic, comprehensive portrait ever written of the man who changed the way we see the world.