Factory made : Warhol and the sixties / Steven Watson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-462) and index.

A fascinating look at the avant-garde group that came together--from 1964 to 1968--as Andy Warhol's Silver Factory, a cast that included Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Billy Name, Candy Darling, Baby Jane Holzer, Brigid Berlin, Ultra Violet, and Viva. Following their lives from childhood through their Factory years, Watson shows how this fluctuating mix of artists and poets, musicians and filmmakers, drag queens, society figures, and fashion models, all interacted at the Factory to create more than 500 films, the Velvet Underground, paintings and sculpture, and thousands of photographs. Warhol produced his most iconic art between 1961 and 1964, but it was his films that were his most prolific output in the mid-1960s, and this book points up the interaction of the Factory with the New York avant-garde film world. The story is set up in the context of the revolutionary 1960s New York milieu: the opening of Paul Young's Paraphernalia, Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, Max's Kansas City, and the Beautiful People Party at the Factory, among many other events. Includes more than 130 black-and-white photographs--some never before seen--and many sidebars of quotes and slang that help define the Warholian world.--From publisher description.