A spectacular visual biography of the life and career of one of the most colourful and innovative artists of the 20th centuryreleased by Phaidon deals with the extraordinary life of the Pop Art movement’s founder, his career and his inheritance in huge format. Therefore the book, with its 1400 colour and 600 monochrome illustrations, fits perfectly to Warhol’s definition of meaning: “what is written about you is not important, but how much.” More on www.phaidon.com
He was born in 1938 in New York City. Peter Beard kept diaries at an early age. He took his first pictures at twelve and photography quickly evolved into an extension of his diaries, as a way to preserve and remember vacations and favorite things. In 1957 he entered Yale University as a pre-medical student, but perceiving humans as the main disease soon switched to art history, studying under Vincent Scully, Joseph Albers, and Richard Lindner.
In addition to creating original artwork, Beard has befriended and collaborated on projects with many artists including Andy Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, Richard Lindner, Terry Southern, Truman Capote, and Francis Bacon.
