Lot Details
Lot 246
Andy Warhol Andy Warhol's Index (Book).
New York: Random House, 1967. First edition, first printing. Publisher's stiff printed metallic wrappers. 11 x 8 1/2 inches; unpaginated, entirely illustrated, mostly after photographs, with seven pop-ups and inserts. Moderate wear to corners, spine and fore-edges with rubbing and scuffing to wrapper, remnants of price sticker glue to front cover, text block and sewing coming loose after front free endpapers but holding at the book's rear, without the Chelsea Girls ad, the dodecahedron (though its string remains) and the forty-five R.P.M. flexi-disk, four "For a Surprise!!!" tabs remaining, balloon adhered to pages and offsetting to adjacent leaves as is apparently always the case, gift inscription to front free endpaper.
Andy Warhol's exuberant Pop art photobook-as-object consisted of a photographic portrait of the 47th street "Silver" Factory scene, three interviews (one for a Brooklyn high school's student newspaper), and a variety of seemingly random insets, including pop-ups and a silver balloon. Billy Name was in charge of the book's production - he recalled: "I originally called the book Andy Warhol's Index. The Idea was to publish an index of all the films which viewers should see (all of Andy Warhol's films)... [but] Random House objected, saying the project was supposed to be a 'book.' So I changed the title to Andy Warhol's Index (Book)... The reason these interviews were chosen for the book is because they appeared to contain a substantial amount of text, thereby fulfilling the 'need' for reading matter in the book... the ones I chose seemed to be the most 'charming,' ridiculous, or the most like "Warhol Factory stuff' (as opposed to New York Times of Art in America stuff.) (Goldsmith, Kenneth (editor). I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. pp. 118-119.)
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