"[74], Solanas may have intended to write an eponymous autobiography. [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. Warhol thought the title of her play was amusing, and though her serious demeanor and spartan appearance clashed with the Factory aesthetic, she was invited to return. “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.”. While Warhol was on the phone, Solanas fired at him three times. Doctors barely saved his life -- in fact, he died, briefly, but was revived -- and the experience had a lasting effect on his art. When she was 15, she left her grandparents and became homeless. As a child, she wrote insults for children to use on one another, for the cost of a dime. She was charged with attempted murder, assault, and illegal possession of a gun. She tried to shoot Fred Hughes, Warhol's manager, in the head, but her gun jammed. From the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll to a Golden Girl, our nation’s veterans have also conquered politics, the arts — and even space travel. High-profile feminists scrambled to distance themselves from her name. And I consider it immoral that I missed. The copy Warhol had lost was found in a trunk of lighting equipment owned by Billy Name.
I believe being sick is no excuse.
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. Solanas said that her grandfather was a violent alcoholic who often beat her. In 1968, Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas, a peripheral figure in the New York art world. Many contradictions are seen in her lifestyle as a lesbian who sexually serviced men, her claim to be asexual, a rejection of queer culture, and a non-interest in working with others despite a dependency on others. She was played by Lena Dunham. Valerie.” She told him that she intended to buy a gun. Furthermore, she began to conflate Warhol – who never returned the edition of Up Your Ass she sent years earlier – and Girodias as men who were out to steal her ideas. After graduating with a degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, Solanas relocated to Berkeley, California, where she began writing her most notable work, the SCUM Manifesto, which urged women to "overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex."[1][2]. She was tossed out of the Chelsea. Valerie.” She told him that she intended to buy a gun. He described the sensation as a “cherry bomb exploding inside me.” Amaya was grazed in the back. She also shot art critic Mario Amaya and attempted to shoot Warhol's manager, Fred Hughes, point blank, but the gun jammed. By most accounts, the meeting went well. Solanas came out as a lesbian in the 1950s. American radical feminist, author, stalker and attempted murderer. She badgered him to produce Up Your Ass. She was in … "[66][67] According to Betty Friedan, the NOW board rejected Atkinson.
She called the Factory frequently to ask about the production; Warhol often recorded their conversations because she was a “great talker.” To her frustration, lines of her dialogue later appeared uncredited in his films. Wrote her high school principal in a college letter of recommendation, "She is an exceptionally bright girl with lots of courage and determination.". On June 3, 1968, Solanas waited for Warhol outside his new Factory and rode the elevator up with him. She started writing hateful letters to Warhol: “I really do believe that if you didn’t have your lies + deception + notarized affidavits, you’d shrivel up + die. “The police are looking for me,” she said. [1], Some authors have argued that the Manifesto is a parody of patriarchy and a satirical work and, according to Harding, Solanas described herself as "a social propagandist,"[31] but Solanas denied that the work was "a put on"[32] and insisted that her intent was "dead serious. "[63][64] She was sentenced to three years in prison, with one year of time served. Around this time she met publisher Maurice Girodias, who had built a career via Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and other controversial books bypassed by mainstream houses. [101], Breanne Fahs describes Solanas as a contradiction that "alienates her from the feminist movement." I didn't do it for nothing. 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. State of California.
[42][54], Later that day, Solanas turned herself in, gave up her gun, and confessed to the shooting,[55] telling a police officer that Warhol "had too much control in my life. the infamous anarchist-feminist screed, and, Solanas had parlayed an invitation to the Factory through an acquaintance, the photographer Nat Finkelstein, with the intention of promoting, Solanas was an outsider among revolutionaries. As she formulated the ideas that would show up in her later works, Solanas was smitten by the allure of the bohemian lifestyle of the artists, poets and musicians who flocked to New York City's Greenwich Village, and she decided to join them in the summer of 1962. Upon her release, Solanas continued levying threats toward other publishing figures, landing her back in psychiatric care until 1975. Solanas's cousin claimed the man was a sailor, and that Solanas may have also given birth to a second child before leaving home. And I believe I would've pulled the switch on her myself." I didn't know what sort of trouble, but I knew she was trouble. "[23] Harding describes it as more a "provocation than ... a work of dramatic literature"[24] and "rather adolescent and contrived. "[38] In exchange, Girodias paid her $500. [14][15][16][b], Despite this, she graduated from high school on time and earned a degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was in the Psi Chi Honor Society. [13], Writer Andrea Long Chu has discussed the influence of Solanas’ The SCUM Manifesto on her own work: "It exhilarated me: the grandeur, the brutal polemics, the raw, succulent style of the whole thing. [19] According to James Martin Harding, the play is "based on a plot about a woman who 'is a man-hating hustler and panhandler' and who ... ends up killing a man. a parody of patriarchy and a satirical work, Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag, A Manuscript, a Confrontation, a Shooting, "Brain Damage Control: Phil Spector, Valerie Solanas and Me". She remained for three hours before heading to the Grove Press, where she asked for Barney Rosset, who was also not available. He gave Solanas a $500 advance to write a novel, but she pushed him to publish The SCUM Manifesto instead. [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. "[65], Ti-Grace Atkinson, the New York chapter president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), described Solanas as "the first outstanding champion of women's rights"[65] and "a 'heroine' of the feminist movement,"[66][67] and "smuggled [her manifesto] ... out of the mental hospital where Solanas was confined. That year Solanas also finally gained an audience of Warhol at the Factory, his legendary Midtown loft known for its art shows, dazzling parties and counterculture icons. Stridsberg was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the book. He described the sensation as a “cherry bomb exploding inside me.” Amaya was grazed in the back. Three years later, she would make her last visit to the Factory with the intention to shoot Warhol to death. [79] According to Ultra Violet, Solanas was then known as Onz Loh. 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. "[71][f], After Solanas was released from the New York State Prison for Women in 1971,[72] she stalked Warhol and others over the telephone and was arrested again in November 1971. "[43], Fahs records that Solanas then traveled to producer Margo Feiden's (then Margo Eden) residence in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, as Solanas believed that Feiden would be willing to produce her play. Subscribe to ARTnews today! Warhol first realized what was happening, and before she fired the second shot he yelled, “Valerie! ")[48], Fahs additionally cites Assistant District Attorney Roderick Lankler's handwritten notes on the case, written on June 4, 1968, which begin with Margo Feiden's stage name, "Margo Eden," address, and telephone numbers at the top of the page. [89] Tragedy in Nine Lives (2003), by Karen Houppert, examined the encounter between Solanas and Warhol as a Greek tragedy and starred Juliana Francis as Solanas. After a few minutes, she shot both Warhol and London art critic Mario Amaya with a .32 Beretta. Solanas wished to be supported for her own creative work. Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol. He was going to do something to me which would have ruined me. There was a pile of typewritten pages beside her. [67] Atkinson left NOW and started another feminist organization. [61] Solanas appeared at New York Supreme Court on June 13, 1968.
[5][7] She had a younger sister, Judith Arlene Solanas Martinez.
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