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At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world, falling in and out of love, and engaging in an ongoing artistic education.

So much is surprising and captivating about this coming-of-age story of a culture-rich, pre-and-proto-’60s upper class girl with rebellion and independence wired in. Lale’s early decades were a complex mixture of innocence, sophistication, doubt, passion, adventure, and brutal self-criticism. They live in a small East Side walk-up, but her mother orders custom-made clothes from Christian Dior in Paris. Finally finding focus for her passion, she powers her way into her chosen profession: architecture.

Andy Warhol è stato e continua a essere una delle figure più influenti dell'arte e della cultura contemporanea. La sua vita e il suo lavoro hanno ispirato creativi di tutto il mondo nelle più diverse discipline artistiche. Il suo estro e la sua genialità, applicati su ogni mezzo espressivo disponibile, hanno contribuito al crollo del confine tra cultura d'élite e cultura popolare.