I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews (42 page)

64
Matthew Collings, "Andy Warhol,"
Artscribe International
59 (September-October 1986): 44.

65
Lenoir, "Paris Impressed by Warhol Show."

66
Warhol,
Philosophy
, 92; Duchamp’s remark was quoted in
International Celebrity Register
, 223.

67
Walter Hopps, "An Interview with Jasper Johns,"
Artforum
3 (March 1965): 34; and Paul Taylor, "Andy Warhol: The Last Interview,"
Flash Art International
133 (April 1987): 41.

68
Peter Selz, "Pop Goes the Artist,"
Partisan Review
30 (Summer 1963); reprinted as "The Flaccid Art" in
Pop Art: The Critical Dialogue
, ed. Carol Anne Mahsun (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989), 80–81.

69
John Ashbery, "Andy Warhol in Paris,"
New York Herald Tribune
(International Edition), 17 May 1965; reprinted in Ashbery,
Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957–1987
,ed. David Bergman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 121.

70
G. E. [guest editors Clem Goldberger, Jan Lavasseur, and Joanna Romer], "Warhol,"
Mademoiselle
65 (August 1967): 325. For two examples of his subsequent repetition of this claim, see Neal Weaver, "The Warhol Phenomenon: Trying to Understand It,"
After Dark
(January 1969): 30, and Gelmis,
The Film Director as Superstar
, reprinted here on p. 161.

71
Warhol and Hackett,
Philosophy
, 180. In this passage, Warhol falsely claimed that earlier in his career he did not read the reviews of his work. In fact, he all along had collected reviews of his work as well as interviews with him. Elsewhere in the
Philosophy
book, he suggested that he had stolen phrases from his scrapbook clippings for the purpose of crafting a description of himself (p. 10). On Warhol’s idea of using these scrapbook clippings for the
Philosophy
book, see also Colacello,
Holy Terror
, 207–8. Warhol not only incorporated the words of his critics into his verbal creations, but also sometimes gave these words a visual form; see my essay, "The Word Transfigured as Image: Andy Warhol’s Responses to Art Criticism,"
Smart Museum of Art Bulletin
7 (1995–96): 9–17.

72
The question of whether an interview can be art–or literature–has appeared with increasing frequency in the past few decades. It is asked by Bruce Bawer in his essay, "Talk Show" (424), where the answer is, more or less, no; and more sympathetically, if with less complexity, by John Rodden in the introduction to his recent collection of interviews with writers,
Performing the Literary Interview: How Writers Craft their Public Selves
(Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2001).

Every attempt was made to obtain permission for each interview in the present volume. However, due to the obscure nature of many of the publications in which the interviews first appeared, it has proven impossible to secure permission for all of them. If you claim copyright to work appearing in this volume, and it is not listed below, please contact us so that this oversight may be amended in future printings.

“What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters, Part I” copyright
©
1963, ARTnews LLC, reprinted by permission of the publisher
.

“Andy Warhol Interviewed By A Poet” reprinted courtesy of John Giorno.

“Pop Goes The Artist” reprinted courtesy of Ruth Hirschman.

“Andy Warhol: Interviewed by Gerard Malanga” © Gerard Malanga.

“Interview with Andy Warhol on EMPIRE” © Gerard Malanga.

“Andy Warhol on Automation: An Interview with Gerard Malanga” © Gerard Malanga
.

“An Interview with Andy Warhol” reprinted courtesy of David Ehhrenstein
.

“Pop Goes the Videotape: An Underground Interview with Andy Warhol” reprinted courtesy of Richard Ekstract
.

“USA Artists: Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein” Lane Slate, courtesy Thirteen / WNET New York
.

“Andy Warhol: My True Story” reprinted courtesy ofGretchen Berg.

Untitled Interview reprinted courtesy of Robert Reilly.

“Andy Warhol Interviews Bay Times Reporter” reprinted courtesy of Sheepshead Bay High School
.

“My Favorite Superstar: Notes on My Epic, Chelsea Girls” © Gerard Malanga
.

“Andy Out West” reprinted courtesy of Jim Paltridge and the Estate of Michael Kalmen. “Cab Ride with Andy Warhol” reprinted courtesy of Frederick Ted Castle
.

“We’re Still All Just Experimenting” reprinted courtesy of Roger Netzer and Curtis Roberts
.

“A Conversation with Andy Warhol” © Gerard Malanga

“Around Barnett Newman” reprinted courtesy of Jeanne Siegel. “Andy Warhols Life, Loves, Art and Wavemaking” by Bess Winakor, reprinted with special permission from the Chicago Sun-Times, Inc. © 2003, September 28, 1975.

“Andy Warhol, Factory Diary: Letter to Man Ray (1976)” ©2003 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

“Interview: Andy Warhol” reprinted courtesy of Glenn O’Brien.

“Dinner With Andy and Bill, February 1980” reprinted courtesy of Victor Bockris.

“Modern Myths: Andy Warhol” reprinted courtesy of Barry Blinderman.

“A Shopping Spree in BloomingdaWs with Andy Warhol” by Tracy Brobston, reprinted with permission of The Dallas Morning News.

“Q & A: Andy Warhol” reprinted courtesy of Michelle Bogre.

“An Interview with Andy Warhol” reprinted courtesy of Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.

“Andy Warhol: An Artist and His Amiga” reprinted courtesy of Glenn Suokko.

“Andy Warhol” reprinted courtesy of Jordan Crandall

“The Last Interview” (Andy Warhol, interview with Paul Taylor, Flash Art International #133, Vol. XX, 1987), reprinted courtesy of Flash Art International.

Kenneth Goldsmith’s
writing has been called some of the most “exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry” by
Publishers Weekly
. The author of seven books and editor of the online journal UbuWeb, Goldsmith is also a music writer for
New York Press
and host of a weekly radio show on New York City’s WFMU. Goldsmith is a fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in New York with his wife and child.

Reva Wolf
has written extensively on Andy Warhol, his times, and his work. Most notable among these publications is
Andy Warhol Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s
(University of Chicago, 1997). Wolf is an associate professor of art history at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she teaches courses on modern and contemporary art, and on art historical methodology

Wayne Koestenbaum
, a professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of five books of nonfiction (including a biography of Andy Warhol) and three books of poetry. In Fall 2004 he will publish a book-length poem,
Model Homes
, and his first novel,
Moira Orfei In Aigues-Mortes
.

Abstract expressionism
     impression on
     
Monet and
     
pop artists and
     views about
Abzug, Bella
Acconci, Vito
“A Conversation with Andy Warhol”

Acting
Actors
     the favorite
     introducing
Advertising
     as Pop Art
     professional, Warhol and
 “Afterword: Warhol's Interviews”

Albers
 “All American Boy”
America (book)
 American life
      
pop art and
     views about
 American painting, nude figure in
 American Photographer
(magazine)
 American vs. European films
 AmigaWorld
(magazine)
 Andy Mats
(restaurant chain)
 “Andy Out West”
 “Andy Warhol”
 “Andy Warhol: An Artist and His Amiga”

“Andy Warhol: Interviewed by Gerard
        Malanga”
 “Andy Warhol, Movieman: 'It's Hard to
        Be Your Own Script'
 “Andy Warhol: My True Story”

“Andy Warhol interviewed by a Poet”

“Andy Warhol Interviews Bay Times
      Reporter”
“Andy Warhol on Automation: An Interview
      with Gerard Malanga”
Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes
(video
      show)
Andy Warhols index
(book)
“Andy Warhol's Life, Loves, Art and
      Wavemaking”
Anger, Kenneth
Angus, Robert
Annual Annual
(journal)
Anselmino, Luciano
Antonio, Emile de
Appearance
Arden, Eve
Aristocrat, the favorite
“Around Bamett Newman”
Art. See also Commercial art; Pop art
     buying in the year 2000
     camera as an essential part of
     computers and
     conceptual
     devotion to
     fantasies in
     the first
     grades in school
     graffiti
     high
     influence on New York scene
     the market of
     mass
     personal
      relationship with philosophy
      
Schapiro and
      in the sixties
     view about movement in

Artists. See also Business artist
advice for the young
    American, the favorite
     decision to be an
     definition of
     the first influence
     the richest
     women, the favorite
ARTNews
(magazine)
ArtNews
(magazine)
Arts
(magazine)
Art Voice
(journal)
Art world
     the control of the feminine principle
           in
     view about
Ashbery, John
“A Shopping Spree in Bloomingdale's
      with Andy Warhol”
Assassination attempt, by Valerie
       Solanos
Audience
     reaction, films and
     using double screen and
Automation
     loss of jobs and
     meeting the challenge of
B (play)
Bad
(movie)
Bailey, David
Baker, Carroll
Ball, Lucille
Balloon Farm (nightclub)
Baseball
(painting)
Basquiat, Jean-Michel
Bay Times
(magazine)
The Beard
(play)
Beard, Peter
Beavers, The Bed
Benglis, Lynda

Berg, Gretchen
Bergen, Edgar
Berlin, Brigid,
Berrigan, Ted
Billboards
Blanchard, Carol
Blinderman, Barry
Blond on a Bummer
(film)
Blow Job
(film)
Bluebody
(magazine)
Blue movie (Fuck)
Blue Movie
(film)
Bobby Vee on the Scopitone
(play)
Bockris, Victor
Bogre, Michelle
Boots
Borg, Vida Ann
Boston
Bourdon, David
Brainard, Joe
Breathe
(film)
Breslin, Jimmy
Brillo boxes
Brobston, Tracy
Bronfman, Edgar
Bruce, Lenny
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D
Buffet (painter)
Buildings, portraits of
Burden, Chris
Burroughs, William S
Business artist. See also Artists
     the best
     Picasso as
     “Cab Ride with Andy Warhol”
Cadmus, Paul
Cage, John
Cale, Johnny
California
Callahan, Sean
Camera
     as an essential part of art

    and attitude toward photography,
    Bolex sixteen millimeter and film
           making,
    use of Arriflex
    use of “Big Shot”
    use of Chinon for photographs,
    use of Minox,
Campbell Soup Can
(painting)
,
Campbell soup cans
    as a favorite painting,
     idea for,
     making the,
     
meaning of
    
paintings of
     
Rothkos and
     use of commercial art in the
           painting of
    
vs. Mona Lisa
Campbell soup show
Cannes Film Festival
Canyon, Bryce
Capital punishment, belief in
Capp,Al
Carnegie Tech
Cass, Peggy
Cassavetes, John
Castelli, Leo
The Castle
Castle, Frederick Ted
Cavalier
(magazine)
Celebrities, the favorite
Cenacolo exhibition
Chagall, Marc
Chamberlain, Wynn
Change
Chelsea
(magazine)
Chelsea Girls
(film)
    Cannes Film Festival and screening
           of
    as a favorite movie
    
idea of
split/image in
    Ingrid and

    money and production of
    as successful movie,
Chelsea Hotel
Cher,
Chicago Sun-Times,
Childhood, Warhol and,
China
de Chirico series
Christopher Street (magazine)
Cinémathéque
Cistro
Citizen Kane
Clothes
    changing
    the favorite
Coca-Cola
     commercial art use in the painting
           of
     meaning of
Coke
(painting)
Colacello,Bob
Colleges
     market for films in
     reaction of audience to films
    tour of
Color
    the favorite
    films and
    fondness for
     use of
Comedians, the favorite
Comic strips
Commercial art.
See also
Art
     introduction to
     machine and
    as profession
    reason for leaving
    
techniques of
    use in Campbell Soup painting
    use in Coca-Cola painting
    view about
Commercial films

Commercial illustrator
Commercials, on television
Commodore AmigaA1000,
    use of
Compensation, views about
Computers
    art and
    views about
Conceptual art
“Coversation with Andy Warhol, A”
Copley, Bill
Copola, Francis Ford
Copying, painting and
Copyright, view about
Cosell, Howard
Cosmetics, shopping at Bloomingdale
      for
Cost
    of seeing films by people
    of shooting a film
Costello, Abbott
Couch
(film)
Crandall, Jordan
Culture, American
Cunningham, Merce
Curtis, Jackie
Cutrone, Ronnie
The Daily Califomian
(magazine)
Dali, Salvador
Dallas Morning News
Dallesandro, Joe
Darnell, Linda
Davis, Stuart
     
influence of
     
Lucky Strike Green Package
and
     paintings of
Dead cliché

Dearie, Blossom
Death
     life after, belief in
     townhouse during
Death series
     Monroe picture as part of
     parts of
     pictures reason for starting
     pictures show in Paris on
     working on
Demers Claire
DeMille, Cecil B
Destiny
Dick Tracy
(painting)
Dine, Jim
“Dinner with Andy and Bill, February
     1980”
Dino
Disco art
Dollar bills
DOM. See Balloon Farm (nightclub)
Donahue, Troy
     as favorite actor
     introduction of
     pictures of
     
significance of
     Dont Worry
(film)
     Doody, Howdy, photograph for
     Dracula and Frankenstien
            (movie)
     Dragon People
     The Drivers Seat
(film)
     Drugs
     Duchamp, Marcel
     Durbin, Deanna
     Dylan, Bob
The East Village Other
(magazine)
Eat (moving-picture portraits)

Editing
     in films
    videotape and
Ehrenstein, David
Ekstract, Richard
Elvis Presley show
Emerson, Eric
Empire State Building
(film)
Employment
Ertegun, Ahmet
Esquire
(magazine)
Europe
Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Faces
(film)
Factory
     Bockris and Burroughs meeting
           Warhol at
     college students and
     description of
     on Broadway
          interview at the third
     on 47th street
          interview with Ekstract
          interview with Gretchen Berg
     interview with David Ehrenstein
     Malanga as an assistant at
     Malanga recorded interview at
     naming of
     as president of
     Robert Reilly interview at
     on 32nd street
          interview with Michelle Bogre
     on Union Square
     interview with Barry Blinderman
     interview with George Gruskin

     interview with Joseph Gelmis
“Factory Diary: Letter to Man Ray”
Fashion
     art and
     interest in
Feldman, Ron
Ferus Gallery
Fillimore auditorium
Film Culture
(magazine)
The Film Director as Superstar,
(book)
Film maker, as a documentary
Film making
     devotion to art and
     enjoyment of
     involvement in
     learning
     pop art and
     putting away
     shooting the,
     starting,
     Taylor Mead and
     as a throwback
Film reviews,
of Sleep
Films.
See also
Commercial films;
       Underground films
     American vs. European
     color and
     cost of seeing
     cost of shooting
     the favorite
     horror
     the hot
     influence on the gay movement
     of interest
     of Jack Smith
     the least satisfying
     market in colleges
     people reaction to

     plans for
     reason for making
     relationship between prints and
     role in directing
     sexual ambiguity in
     sound
     straight
     and television
     Three Girls Grow Up, as the first
           watched
     underground
     using stationary objects
    vs. paintings
    vs. videotape
Firehouse Factory
Flash Art
Flowers
(print)
Flower Thief
(film)
Food and drinks
     eating habits
    the favorite beer
     the favorite canned food
     favorite drinks
    the favorite food
    the favorite frozen foods
    typical breakfast
Ford, Jack
Ford, Jane
Fox-Trot
(floor-painting)
Fredericks, Tina
Freeman, Joseph
Fremont, Vincent
Friendships
Fuck
(Blue Movie)
Future, view about
Gablik, Suzi
Gangster
(film)
Garbo, Greta
Geldzahler, Henry
Gelmis, Joseph

     “Andy Warhol”
     description of Warhol
Gerard (whip dancer)
German reporter
Ghost-interviews
Giacometti
Gilded Grape (bar)
Giorno, John
Glamour
(magazine)
Glover, Jill
Goddard, Paulette
Goldberg, Whoopi
Graffiti art
Graham, Bill
Graphicraft
Green, Gilbert
Griffin, Merv
Grossman, Albert
Gruskin, George
Guinness, Catherine
Guinness Book of Records
The Gunnery News
(magazine)
H. J. Heinz Co
Hackett, Pat
Haeger, Jack
Happiness
Haring, Keith
Harlot
(film)
Harry, Debbie
Hartford, Huntington
Heat
(film)
Heide, Bob
Help and helping, view about
Henry Geldzahler
(moving picture portraits)
High art
High Times
Hirschman, Ruth
Hobbies

Hoffman, Susan, as favorite actor
Hollywood
     competing with
    Taylor Mead and Warhol in
     visits to
Holzer, Jane (Baby Jane)
Home movies, videotape affect on
Hopper, Dennis
Horror films
Hudson Review
Hughes, Fred
Hugo, Victor
Human effort
Human judgment, automation and
Hunter, Tab
Huxley, Geralyn
Ideas, people influence and
Image(s)
     ideas for
     motives behind repeating of
     
preconceived
     repeating of
     selection of
     views about
Imitation college
Impersonation, Allen Midgette and
 “Inside Andy Warhol”
 Inspiration in life
 International Velvet
 “Interview: Andy Warhol”
Interview
magazine
     as administrator
     Bockris working freelance for
     circulation of
     Gerard Malanga in charge of
      idea for
      making interviews for
     publishing of
 Interviews
     during the eighties

    idea about
    during the seventies
    
during the sixties
    taping the
    by unknown German reporter
    
unpublished
    on videotape
    view about
    Wayne Koestnbaum on
“An Interview with Andy Warhol”
“An Interview with Andy Warhol: Some
      Say he's the Real Mayor of New
      York”
“Interview with Andy Warhol on
      EMPIRE”
Invisible sculpture
Iolas, Alexandre
Italy
It Isn't Just Another Afternoon
(movie)
Ivory Soap contest
“Jack Armstrong”
Jagger, Mick
Jane Eyre
(film)
Jane Regained Sort Of
(film)
Jean, Gloria
John And Ivy
(film)
Johnson, Ray
Jones, Jasper
Jones, Jennifer
Joy House
(movie)
Kalmen, Michael
Kansas City (Max)
“The KatzenjammerKidz”
Kennedy, Jacqueline

 Kent, Clark
 Kent, Letitia
 King, Perry
 Klee, Paul
 Kline, Franz
 Kluver, Billy
 Koch, Stephen
 Koestenbaum, Wayne
 Kubrick, Stanley
 Kulchur
(magazine)
L'Amour
(film)
 Landscapes
 “The Last Interview”
Last Supper paintings
ldenburg, Claes
Lebel, Jean-Jacques
Lemon Hearts
(film)
Leonardo da Vinci, influence of
“Let's Pretend”
Levine, Les
Liberace's gallery
Liechtenstein, Roy
Life
     after death, belief in
     meaning of
     opinion about
     satisfaction with
Life ofjuanita Castro
(film)
Lighting, films and
Lincoln Center event (New York)
Linday, John
LiPo's (bar)
“Little Orphan Annie”
Living, belief in
Lonesome Cowboys (film)
Loren, Sophia
Los Angeles
Love
     belief in
     experience in