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Like Andy Warhol Like Andy Warhol Jonathan Flatley The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2017 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Published 2017 Paperback edition 2022 Printed in the United States of America 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 50557- 2 (cloth) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226-82394- 2 (paper) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 50560- 2 (e- book) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/ chicago/9780226505602.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Flatley, Jonathan, author. Title: Like Andy Warhol / Jonathan Flatley. Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017033940 | ISBN 9780226505572 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226505602 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Warhol, Andy, 1928–1987. Classification: LCC N6537.W28 F58 2018 | DDC 700.92—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017 033940 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/ NISO Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). For José Esteban Muñoz Contents Introduction: Like 1 1 Collecting and Collectivity 53 2 Art Machine 89 3 Allegories of Boredom 137 4 Skin Problems 179 Acknowledgments 253 Abbreviations 259 Index 261 Introduction: Like warhol: Someone said that Brecht wanted everybody to think alike. I want every- body to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Communism, in a way. Russia is doing it under government. It’s happening here all by itself without being under a strict government; so if it’s working without trying, why can’t it work without being Communist? Everybody looks alike and acts alike, and we’re getting more and more that way. I think everybody should be a machine. I think everybody should like everybody. Is that what Pop Art is all about? warhol: Yes. It’s liking things. And liking things is like being a machine? warhol: Yes, because you do the same thing every time. You do it over and over again. Andy Warhol, “What Is Pop Art?”1 The like is not the same. Jean-Luc Nancy2 It was no secret that Andy Warhol liked liking things. He liked to say things like “I like everything” and “I like everybody.”3 In response to questions about his favorite artist, movie star, movie, or TV show, he would generally 1 “What Is Pop Art?,” interview by G. R. Swenson, Art News 62, no. 7 (November 1963); reprinted in IBYM, 16– 20, 16. Gerard Malanga reported that Warhol was more open and expansive in this interview because Gene Swenson (an art critic and Warhol’s friend) hid the tape recorder under the table and Warhol did not know he was being recorded. Patrick S. Smith, Warhol: Conversations about the Artist (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988), 165. 2 The Inoperative Community, ed. Peter Connor, trans. Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Michael Holland, and Simona Sawhey (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), 33. 3 See, among many examples, A: A Novel (New York: Grove Press, 1968), 324.
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