MEMPHIS, TN.- Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is partnered with local public broadcasting station WKNO to bring to the big screen American Masters Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film. The first production to explore the full range of the pop artist's career, this two-part, four-hour documentary is directed by Ric Burns. The film is narrated by artist and musician Laurie Anderson and features artist Jeff Koons as the voice of Andy Warhol.

No artist in the second half of the 20th century was more famous - or, perhaps, more famously misunderstood - than Andy Warhol. The film explores Warhol's astonishing artistic output from the late 1940s to his untimely death in 1987. Set within the turbulent, changing context of his life and times, this portrait is the first to move deeply into the immense archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the city of his humble origins. Obsessed with fame and a desire to transcend those origins, Warhol uniquely grasped the realities of modern society - the function of celebrity and of the mass media - and became the high priest of one of the most radical experiments in American culture, permanently penetrating and redefining the barrier between art and commerce.

The documentary premieres on the "American Masters" series Wednesday, September 20 and Thursday, September 21 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS.