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Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol
Set in the dervish years of the Sixties and Seventies, "Famous For Fifteen Minutes" is a confession memoir of Ultra Violet. The story recounts of Warhol, a shy, bald, myopic, gay albino from an ethnic Pittsburgh suburb and the "Girl in Andy's Soup," Isabelle Collin Dufresne, a.k.a. Ultra Violet, a convent educated heiress from France. Salvador Dali, her companion for five...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
November 19th 2004
by Backinprint.com
(first published October 1988)
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Quick read. There are a few things in this book that made me raise an eyebrow. I have "Factory Made" to read next and I think that will give me a better, less biased perceptive of the Factory. There is worth to this book if only to see a sober point of view of the Factory. She did get to witness some of the strange on-goings in there.
One thing that bothered me is that she hardly mentioned Edie. No, a chapter on how she pities her for her drug addiction doesn't count. I wanted to read about Edie...more
One thing that bothered me is that she hardly mentioned Edie. No, a chapter on how she pities her for her drug addiction doesn't count. I wanted to read about Edie...more
Fascinating subject matter, told in an occasionally too-flowery manner by an unreliable, press-obsessed narrator. If you're interested in Andy Warhol's Factory, definitely check it out. Paints a really incredible portrait of the Pop art movement and New York in fashionable circles in the 1960s.
Candy floss for the mind. Colorful, sticky, fun and wanting more when its finished. The Factory through Ultra's eyes sounds like a pretty funky place with misfits and marvels and one pretty distant dude named Warhol hunting down fame. I really enjoyed the lightness in the writing and I now have a better appreciation for the characters in Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side.
I liked it! Decadent, self indulgent, mod, raw and real. A not so glamorous look into the days of the 'factory' with Warhol and the world they created.
not nearly as good as the holly woodlawn tell-all. very focussed on her disgusting sex life. sort of homophobic, but claims andy warhol as her own. not a fan of the snooty french bitch art lady, but the book was alright and had some interesting tidbits and perspective that was fun to compare to holly's 'low life in high heels' so worth the dry read.
This was an interesting read but the author is such a huge liar that it's impossible to take it seriously.
This book was really interesting! I've had a recent fascination with Andy Warhol and this book was a very intimate look at his captivating and eccentric life.
Read this forever ago. Remember thinking it was fabulous.
disturbing but fascinating
I read this many many moons ago (like probably almost 25 years ago). I got it for cheap in hardcover on a sale display at one of those mall chain book stores that probably no longer exists. It's a lot of fun, but you have to go into it knowing that this woman is full of herself and wants to dish dish dish. In that way, it shows you just exactly why Warhol kept her around. Bitchy rich self-absorbed art-world jet-setter? She played her part in Warhol's world quite well.
This is certainly not the most well-written book in all of creation, but it's on an interesting topic and written from a truly narcissistic point of view. It's Ultra Violet's perspective on the high times at the Factory -- Andy Warhol's popularity and her role in it. Full of groovy pictures for those who like to put faces with names and names with faces in creative nonfiction.
Feb 26, 2012
Phyllis
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review of another edition
Shelves:
autobiography-biography,
warhol-factory
This started out with so many bizarre vignettes that I enjoyed it even though Ultra Violet is stupefyingly pretentious. But her attempts to make herself front and center in every major event in the history of Warhol's Factory scene ultimately makes her really unreliable as a narrator, and it gets annoying and unbelievable.
This does have some interesting tidbits about the factory and even about the author's own life; the main problem here is that the author is a real bitch, and not in the good sense.
A very fun Book - Ultra VIolet was close in and has much to dish on and gossip about. Nothing heavy here - nothing life changing - just pulp - as Andy would have liked it...
fun read on the beach. I never knew much about Warhol, but now I do.
meh... probably the most boring warhol-related book i've read.
interesting peek into the life of andy worhol's factory crew.
thrilling life, eh book. for "factory" completists only
Jun 04, 2013
Denika Clay
marked it as to-read
Jun 01, 2013
MBP
marked it as to-read
May 29, 2013
Ronnie Bishop
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May 20, 2013
melissa
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Isabelle Dufresne is a French-American artist, author, and former colleague of Andy Warhol. Earlier in her career, she worked for and studied with the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. She lives and works in New York City, and also has a studio in Nice, France.
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