About The Work
Originally advertised as “a mod, gadget-packed item guaranteed to surprise and delight,” this “children’s book for hipsters” combines interviews and photographs with pop-up images and other interactive elements in a playful celebration of Andy Warhol’s Factory and its denizens. The artist’s first mass-produced book, Andy Warhol’s Index is an innovative and influential work of art and publishing in its own right.
The book contains ten pop-up or pull-out components: a pop-up castle; a harmonic accordion (or “Bronx cheer maker”); a pop-up biplane; a “spring-loaded” Chelsea Girls paper disc; an illustrated dodecahedron; a 45 RPM flexi disc recording of Nico and others talking over fragments of Lou Reed’s songs “I’m Waiting for the Man” and “Femme Fatale”; a foldout photographic print; a pop-up Hunt’s tomato paste can; a sheet of perforated moisture-sensitive paper tabs; and a silver rubber balloon. The use of silver throughout the book was intended to reflect the Factory’s decor, while the “3D action cover,” created by Warhol in collaboration with artist and inventor Billy Klüver, has a holographic effect. This copy is housed in its original printed plastic bag.
About Andy Warhol
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Announcing the sixth volume of the acclaimed Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné
- Interviews & Features: David Hockney – ‘I realized I was painting my best friends. The subject wasn’t dogs but my love of the little creatures.’
- Interviews & Features: Harland Miller: 'I've always loved high and low culture. This painting perfectly encapsulates both, more than any painting I've made.'
- Interviews & Features: Seven winning works of sports art
- Interviews & Features: Bill Claps - ‘I hope the images make people feel the power of nature, and help them realize we are a small part of it, not the center’
First Edition
Contributors: Nat Finkelstein, Billy Klüver, Billy Name, Nico, Lou Reed, Stephen Shore, Andy Warhol
11.25 x 8.75 in
28.6 x 22.2 cm
First Printing, First Edition, 1967
About The Work
Originally advertised as “a mod, gadget-packed item guaranteed to surprise and delight,” this “children’s book for hipsters” combines interviews and photographs with pop-up images and other interactive elements in a playful celebration of Andy Warhol’s Factory and its denizens. The artist’s first mass-produced book, Andy Warhol’s Index is an innovative and influential work of art and publishing in its own right.
The book contains ten pop-up or pull-out components: a pop-up castle; a harmonic accordion (or “Bronx cheer maker”); a pop-up biplane; a “spring-loaded” Chelsea Girls paper disc; an illustrated dodecahedron; a 45 RPM flexi disc recording of Nico and others talking over fragments of Lou Reed’s songs “I’m Waiting for the Man” and “Femme Fatale”; a foldout photographic print; a pop-up Hunt’s tomato paste can; a sheet of perforated moisture-sensitive paper tabs; and a silver rubber balloon. The use of silver throughout the book was intended to reflect the Factory’s decor, while the “3D action cover,” created by Warhol in collaboration with artist and inventor Billy Klüver, has a holographic effect. This copy is housed in its original printed plastic bag.
About Andy Warhol
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Announcing the sixth volume of the acclaimed Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné
- Interviews & Features: David Hockney – ‘I realized I was painting my best friends. The subject wasn’t dogs but my love of the little creatures.’
- Interviews & Features: Harland Miller: 'I've always loved high and low culture. This painting perfectly encapsulates both, more than any painting I've made.'
- Interviews & Features: Seven winning works of sports art
- Interviews & Features: Bill Claps - ‘I hope the images make people feel the power of nature, and help them realize we are a small part of it, not the center’
Published by Random House, New York
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