America

<b>'He created his own universe and became its star'</b> <b>David Cronenberg, <i>Guardian</i></b><br> Andy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and, taken from ten years of extraordinary shots, his <i>America</i> aspires to the strange beauty and staggering contradictions of the country itself. Exploring his greatest obsessions - including image and celebrity - he photographs wrestlers and politicians, the beautiful wealthy and the disenfranchised poor, Capote with the fresh scars of a facelift and Madonna hiding beneath a brunette bob. He writes about the country he loves, wishing he had died when he was shot, commercialism, fame and beauty.<br> An America without Warhol is almost as inconceivable as Warhol without America, and this touching, witty tribute is the great artist of the superficial at his most deeply personal.<br>