No artist has ever enthralled the public as has Andy Warhol. His drawings, paintings, and silkscreens, always brash and provocative, epitomize the popular culture of his age and have captured the imagination of millions. By eliminating the distinction between "high art" and the commonplace, he made at least as great an impact on the world of art as any of his contemporaries. Yet perhaps his greatest work was his own identity; in his quest for fame and fortune, Warhol fashioned himself into a media superstar. From an impoverished childhood in Pittsburgh, Warhol went on to become a leading fashion illustrator in New York and then one of the brightest stars on the international art scene. Almost singlehandedly he modernized our aesthetic tradition. His paintings of Campbell"s Soup cans, Brillo boxes, dollar bills, and other examples of American consumerism challenge traditional notions of uniqueness and authorship. The numbing repetition in his multiple portraits of such American...