THIS DAY IN HISTORY-Valerie Solanas Attempts to Assassinate Andy Warhol (1968)

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Valerie Solanas Attempts to Assassinate Andy Warhol (1968) Discuss

In the mid-1960s, American pop-art icon Andy Warhol began to devote much of his time and energy to filmmaking, producing marathon films on boredom and voyeurism that featured deliberately coarse amalgams of sexuality and banality. In 1968, he was shot and wounded by Valerie Solanas, a feminist writer who had appeared in one of his films. Warhol never fully recovered from the shooting and died from complications following surgery in 1987. What sparked Solanas' ire towards Warhol? More...