Humiliation by Wayne Koestenbaum - review

The various ways of being and feeling humiliatedOn 30 October 1985, Andy Warhol was signing books at a New York bookshop when a young woman approached and tore off his silver wig. Andy simply pulled up his jacket's hood and went on signing. Or so the story goes. In fact, as the poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum writes in his svelte 2001 biography, Warhol was mortified. However calculatedly he'd parlayed his bodily strangeness into artistic and commercial success, in middle age he still feare...

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