Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls

Description

Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls had its premiere at the Film-Maker's Cinematheque on 15 September 1966. It sold out a 200-seat theatre and went on to become the first film to move from the underground to commercial cinema. Since 1972, when Warhol pulled all of his films out of distribution, the public has had extremely limited access to The Chelsea Girls , outside of museum screenings. In honour of the 20th Anniversary of The Andy Warhol Museum and what would have been Warhol's 85th birthday, hundreds of Warhol's films - some never seen before - have been converted to a digital format with the partnership of The Andy Warhol Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Moving Picture Company (MPC), a Technicolor Company. This book is an in-depth look at Warhol's most famous film. It includes all newly digitized film stills, never-before-published transcripts, unpublished archival materials, and expanded information about each of the individual films that comprise the three- plus hour film. As the film alternates sound between the left and right screens, the book reproduces the transcript in complete form as one hears it, with imagery from the corresponding reels. There is also a full transcription of the unheard reels in the back of the book. This is a substantial contribution to the scholarship on Warhol's complex and most commercial film.

Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls is, in true Warholian fashion, beautiful, glossy and commanding.--Jimmy Olney "Gayletter" Chelsea Girls still holds up as one of the most creative, innovative, and prescient films of its time.--Sara Rosen "Dazed" From new photos and transcripts found in unheard and unseen reels to a re-creation of the film's split-screen layout, which Warhol first visualized on a napkin, the book offers as good of a glimpse you can get at The Chelsea Girls...--Eckhardt Stephanie "W Magazine" The one that broke it all open. Warhol's portrait of the goings-on in various rooms at the Chelsea Hotel...Here you find the apotheosis of Warhol's moving-image work to date: portraiture, duration, fiction blending into frightening reality.--Craig Hubert "artnet News" The visual impact is best celebrated in the newly digitised stills in the book, which seem to best capture Warhol's mission: to elevate the everyday to the extraordinary, to make the outsider an insider, and a piece of art in the process.--Jack Moss "AnOther Mag" This companion to Andy Warhol's 1966 film The Chelsea Girls is a rare treasure: a reference work of great beauty and discerning scholarship.-- "Publisher's Weekly" Warhol and his Factory Superstars created cool. Or at least, a dark, glamorous version of it. Warhol's The Chelsea Girls, a 1966 experimental film captures that cool...--Jane Starr Drinkard "The Cut"