Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory
by Mary Woronov
published
May 1st 2000
(first published 1995)
by Serpent's Tail
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Paperback, 240 pages
isbn
1852427191
(isbn13: 9781852427191)
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Almost everything I have read about The Factory is interesting although I am not a big fan of Warhol's art. (I've even hung around some art groups that were Factory wannabes). But Warhol is responsible for helping promote one of my all-time favorite bands, The Velvet Underground, (I just listened to the whole "Peel Slowly" box set last month), and some of the movies are fun.
In this book Woronov talks about her days as a dancer with the Velvets and acting in some of Warhol's film...more
In this book Woronov talks about her days as a dancer with the Velvets and acting in some of Warhol's film...more
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Read in June, 2008
A totally entertaining if you like to read memoirs of historically relevant, drug addled youth. I have a fascination with the Warhol scene so I like adding to my perspective. If you are looking for one book about the Warhol era, this is probably not the one. But it's a really quick read, so if you want to sit on the beach and pretend you were a speed freak in the sixties, maybe it's what you're looking for.
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Any thoughts I had about living an artistic-bohemian lifestyle doing lots of speed are now squelched. Interesting read about people whose drug-induced reality is attractive in its possibilities for imagined metamorphisis and living mythology. Equally a disturbing read, making me feel slightly sick to the stomach.
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In the weird and wacky world of Warhol and the Factory, there were many partakers to the scene. But you were either in or you were out. This is an interesting tale of excess on all counts, with some insights on what it was like to be in, then out with Warhol!
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Read in December, 2006
Mary Woronov's memoir about life in Warhol's factory (post-Edie), life living amongst the Mole People and life after all of that. Its a short read and interesting for anyone interested in the factory.
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If you are looking for a book about the Warhol era, this is probably not the best choice. It is an interesting memoria though. So I probably would pick up anything on the subject
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I read this a year ago (for the second time).
I just love it, a window into the old NY art scene and all of its insanity.
I just love it, a window into the old NY art scene and all of its insanity.
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Another one read in my Warhol stage, from an insider's perspective. Nothing that I hadn't read/heard of before.
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A dark portal into the amphetamine subculture within a subculture surrounding Warhol.
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