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Andy Warhol's Index (Book)

Item date(s): 1967

Andy Warhol  - (title)
Billy Name  - (photographs by)
Nat Finkelstein  - (photographs by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 284mm
Binding: Clamshell/solander box - beige linen; Title on spine


Place publication: New York
Publisher: Random House
LOC 67-22621
Cat. 059 - MPM3
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Bound in the original boards with a hologram front cover designed by Warhol.

Quintessential document of Warhol's factory days profusely illustrated with the photography of Billy Name depicting all of the myriad of characters active in the factory. Including color pop-out castle with rounded towers, red accordion, Pop-up aeroplane, round item on spring, pages closed with tabs containing a pop-our hexagon (with usual perished rubber band), card record (still attached to book) triple gate-fold with two inserts of Warhol's nose - multicoloured and pink, , pop-up Hunt's tomato paste can, Andy Warhol name tabs still attached to page and perished baloon. A delightful and important object. As usual the balloon (at the end) is perished but overall an excellent copy with the original printed plastic bag.

See: Looking, Telling, Thinking, Collecting p115.

Illustrated on page 90 of Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books.

Illustrated on page 44 of Artists' Books by Stephen Bury, 1995.

Illustrated on page 154 of The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker, 1995.

Illustrated on page 108 and 109 of Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Soucebook by Joan Lyons, 1985.

Illustrated on page 103 The Book as a Work of Art by Giogio Maffei, 2006.

Illustrated on page 326 of Artists' Books by Suzanne Swarts; Caldic Collection, 2007.

Illustrated as Lot 200 of The Ritter Collection of Modern Illustrated Books and Livres d'Artiste, Swann Auction Galleries, 5/5/09.

Illustrated on p181of Sims Reed catalogue "Modern Illustrated Books", Item 220. Summer 2010.

Illustrated as item 91 in Ursus Books catalogue 261"Classics in Contemporary and Modern Art. n.d. Illustrated on page 41 of Ursus catalogue 310. Modern & Contemporary Illustrated & Photography Books, n.d.

Illustrated as item 93 in Artists & Books 1900-Present. Ursus Books, New York, 2014. Item 93.

Illustrated on page 47 of Artist Books Multiples Prints. Sims Reed Ltd (2014?) Item 160.

Exhibition notes:
Item 059 - MPM3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/10968











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