Andy Warhol hid behind a silver wig, dark glasses, and a deadpan persona so complete that even his closest associates were never sure what was real. The man who turned Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe into fine art was a sickly, deeply religious son of Slovakian immigrants who used his blankness as a mirror — reflecting American consumer culture back at itself until nobody could tell whether he was celebrating it or condemning it.

This episode traces Warhol from his working-class Pittsburgh childhood through the Factory years, the assassination attempt that nearly killed him, and the empire of art, film, and celebrity that made him the most influential artist of the second half of the twentieth century.

• Warhol's sickly childhood, his immigrant family, and the commercial art career that preceded fame
• The Campbell's  ...