Andy Warhol’s Index (Book)

A$1,100 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

With assistance of Stephen Shore, Paul Morrissey, Ondine, Nico, Christopher Cerf, Alan Rinzler, Gerald Harrison, Akihito Shirakawa and particularly David Paul. Several photographs by Nat Finkelstein. Factory fotos by Billy Name. New York: Random House, 1967. Quarto, First edition, silver card tinfoil wrappers (a few handling creases, front free endpaper beginning to unglue from upper panel, text block shaken), pp. [76], with various movable parts. The book was printed with two variant bindings : a hardcover with lenticular cover and a softcover, of which this is a good, complete example. Index may be regarded as both a component of and a reflection on one of the most daring and experimental phases of Warhol s career, running from the May 1965 announcement of his retirement from painting to the February 1968 abandonment of the East 47th Street Factory for offices on Union Square a period that, as a whole, has also remained surprisingly overlooked within art history Appearing to reviewers as an index to all his thoughts , Index encapsulates the full range of Warhol s contemporary endeavours, from the temporarily abandoned silkscreen paintings and sculptures to silver pillows, cow wallpaper, films, video experiments, audiotape projects photography, fashion, music and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI), the multimedia spectacle surrounding Velvet Underground concerts Index presents Warhol simultaneously at his most populist and his most uncompromising, eschewing the camp appr

• Binding: Hardcover

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