ANDY LOVES JUDY

t should come as no surprise that Andy Warhol, the great 20th-century chronicler of celebrity and consumerist iconography, grew up obsessed with Hollywood lore. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928, he came of age in an era of spiralling commercialism and heady glamour, the latter emanating from the Hollywood dream factory. He was fascinated with the strange and beautiful people he saw up there on the screen. His friend Elaine Baumann said he would write fan letters to celebrities like Truman Capote and Judy Garland. He always had a yearning to make a connection with the objects of his desire. Warhol was a master of surfaces. His famous screen prints