"[95] Harding believed that Solanas' assassination attempt on Warhol was its own theatrical performance. [86] The film's director, Mary Harron, requested permission to use songs by The Velvet Underground, but was denied by Lou Reed, who feared that Solanas would be glorified in the film. In 1965, Solanas completed her first major work: A play called Up Your Ass (Full title: Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime), about a street-smart lesbian prostitute and her off-color associates. Solanas was cool. [41], According to an unquoted source in The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, on June 3, 1968, at 9:00 a.m., Solanas arrived at the Chelsea Hotel, where Girodias lived. By fall 1967, her militancy had curdled from amusing to tiresome for the Factory, who soon dropped her. Morrissey arrived and asked her what she was doing there, and she replied "I'm waiting for Andy to get money. She resurfaced later in the decade with a revised edition of The SCUM Manifesto and a contentious interview with The Village Voice, in which she boasted of being offered a $100 million advance to write her life story and called shooting Warhol a "moral issue.". Her politics, too, put her at odds with Warhol and some of the other Factory denizens. He described the sensation as a “cherry bomb exploding inside me.” Amaya was grazed in the back.
According to Breanne Fahs' Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), Solanas was a smart, funny child. "[52] Morrissey tried to get rid of her by telling her that Warhol was not coming in that day, but she told him she would wait. Art dealers Leo Castelli and Ivan Karp made serious statements on Warhol’s legacy. By fall 1967, her militancy had curdled from amusing to tiresome for the Factory, who soon dropped her. [82] A building superintendent at the hotel, not on duty that night, had a vague memory of Solanas: "Once, he had to enter her room, and he saw her typing at her desk. [12][a] The child, named David (later David Blackwell by adoption), was taken away from Solanas and she never saw him again. [78], A decade later, Ultra Violet tracked down Solanas in northern California and interviewed her over the phone.
In the work Oliveros seeks to explore how "Both women seemed to be desperate and caught in the traps of inequality: Monroe needed to be recognized for her talent as an actress. She beat up a boy in high school who was bothering a younger girl, and also hit a nun.
[57], — Valerie Solanas on her assassination attempt on Andy Warhol[59][60], After a cursory evaluation, Solanas was declared mentally unstable and transferred to the prison ward of Elmhurst Hospital. Only the third bullet hit him, but it was a true shot, entering under his right armpit and exiting through his right lung. Quick Facts Name Andy Warhol Birth Date August 6, 1928 Death Date February 22, 1987 Did You Know? Warhol later said “Crazy people had always fascinated me because they were incapable of doing things normally. Solanas was different in that respect—she was frequently homeless. [91] The novel was later translated into and published in English under the title Valerie, or, The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel in 2019.[92]. “To place Valerie in the context of the Factory, consider its denizens and the qualities that might have drawn her to this group,” wrote Breanne Fahs in her biography of Solanas. Here's a surprising look at the real actress who lived beyond the glare of her celebrity. Solanas moved to New York City in the mid-1960s. [15], In the mid-1960s Solanas moved to New York City, where she supported herself through begging and prostitution. [62] That same month, Olympia Press published the SCUM Manifesto with essays by Girodias and Krassner.
Read my manifesto and it will tell you what I am.”, Critics mined the shooting for meaning anyway—and most chose to lampoon Solanas as a fame-mongerer. California Death Index, 1940–1997. "It was the Cardboard Andy, not the Andy I could love and play with," said close friend and collaborator Billy Name. Warhol was chatting on the phone when Valerie fired the first shot from her Beretta. [5] Because of her rebellious behavior, in 1949 her mother sent her to be raised by her grandparents. She said her father regularly sexually abused her and she had a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather after her parents' divorce. The leading source of art coverage since 1902. “It offered a stylized facsimile of the world Valerie knew all too well; what she had experienced as hard reality, the Factory appropriated as gritty, artistic drama.”. Meanwhile, Solanas had approached a young cop in Times Square. [10] Solanas disliked her stepfather and began rebelling against her mother, becoming a truant. [9] In June, she was finally deemed fit to stand trial.
It … By 1968, the Factory had moved from its original location at 241 East 47th Street in Manhattan to a loft on Union Square West. At Columbus Hospital, Warhol was declared clinically dead for two minutes. [76] In a corrective 1977 Village Voice interview, Solanas said the book would not be autobiographical other than a small portion and that it would be about many things, include proof of statements in the manifesto, and would "deal very intensively with the subject of bullshit," but she said nothing about parody. During her brief tenure in Warhol’s orbit she had given him her manuscript for the play, and, whether through her miscommunication or promise, she actually believed he would produce it.
Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist and author best known for writing the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967, and attempting to murder Andy Warhol in 1968.
At the University of Maryland, College Park, Solanas supported herself by working in the psychology department's experimental animal laboratory and possibly through prostitution. On that sunny afternoon Warhol found her outside the building, waiting, and he later wrote that during the elevator together she was “bouncing slightly on the balls of her feet, twisting a brown paper bag in her hands.” Inside she was met with a small group which included the curator and critic Mario Amaya and Paul Morrissey, Warhol’s executive producer. There was a pile of typewritten pages beside her. Get our latest stories in the feed of your favorite networks. [88] Most recently, in 2011, Pop!, a musical by Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs, focused mainly on Warhol (played by Tom Story). [80][g], On April 25, 1988, at the age of 52, Solanas died of pneumonia at the Bristol Hotel in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.
Solanas then enrolled in a master's psychology program at the University of Minnesota, where, Fahs suggests, she became frustrated by the realization of the glass ceiling on her career prospects. [19][21] In 1965 she wrote two works: an autobiographical[22] short story, "A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain the Leisure Class," and a play, Up Your Ass,[c] about a young prostitute. Her first two shots missed, but the third went through both lungs, his spleen, stomach, liver, and esophagus. When she was 15, she left her grandparents and became homeless. While living at the Chelsea Hotel, Solanas introduced herself to Maurice Girodias, the founder of Olympia Press and a fellow resident of the hotel. As she was leaving Feiden's residence, Solanas handed Feiden a copy of her play (a partial copy of an earlier draft of Up Your Ass[45]) and other personal papers. She tried finding a producer for the play, even sending it to the city's resident celebrity artist, Andy Warhol (who she hadn't formally met yet), but no one wanted to touch the overtly lewd material. Go inside Freddie Mercury's relationship with Mary Austin, the woman who inspired Queen's song "Love of My Life.". Valerie Jean Solanas was born April 9, 1936, to Dorothy and Louis Solanas of Ventnor City, New Jersey. As related to Fahs, Solanas talked to Feiden for almost four hours, trying to convince her to produce the play and discussing her vision for a world without men. State of California. Art dealers Leo Castelli and Ivan Karp made serious statements on Warhol’s legacy. She met pop artist Andy Warhol and asked him to produce her play Up Your Ass. He accepted the script for review, told Solanas it was "well typed," and promised to read it. [65], Solanas has also been credited with instigating radical feminism. Ever since the singer released her accusatory track in 1972, the identity of the “you” has remained one of the greatest mysteries in music history.
[79] According to Ultra Violet, Solanas was then known as Onz Loh. By most accounts, the meeting went well.
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