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Andy Warhol's Index (Book)

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)
Publisher: Random House (American, founded in 1927)
Printer: Graphics International Ltd.
Photographer: Billy Name (American, born in 1940)
Photographer: Nathan "Nat" Louis Finkelstein (American, 1933–2009)
Stephen Shore (American, born in 1947)
American
1967

Medium/Technique Artist's book, offset lithograph printed, with pop-ups, fold-outs, and additional ephemera, metal, string
Dimensions Overall: 28.5 × 22 × 1.2 cm (11 1/4 × 8 11/16 × 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Morton Abromson and Joan Nissman
Accession Number2023.312
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

DescriptionFirst edition (stated first printing) hardcover with silver lettered spine and lenticular overlay on front cover, includes pop-up castle, paper accordion, pop-up airplane, "The Chelsea Girls" paper disc on a spring, folder paper dome with string, a 45 R.P.M. flexi-disc with portrait of Lou Reed (plays an otherwise unrecorded song by Nico and the Velvet Underground), fold-out illustration of a nose, a pop-up Hines Tomato Paste can, and a tearout sheet of paper to be dissolved in water.
Provenance1969, sold by Rizzoli Bookstore, New York to Morton Abromson; 2023, gift of Morton Abromson and Joan Nissman, Brookline, MA to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 12, 2023)