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by Jonathan Flatley

queer: dancer type, 109; as distinct from gay, 7; erotic economy, 76; fans, 217; group existence, 70; imitation, 17n52; as “immemorial current” (Sedgwick), 8; kinship networks, 226; lives, as damaged by inversion model, 25; Love on queer studies “at its most expansive,” 32; media communities, 49; pantheon, 242; pride (Ahmed), 31; shame, 32n100; singularity, 47; and “slantwise” lines, 46; social spaces, 119–20; Warner, on queer scenes, 31n99

  queerness: Ahmed and, 31; and Basquiat’s representation of Warhol, 244–46, 251; and belonging, 70; of Dance Diagrams, 109, 120; as invisible under paranoid optic, 33–34; Muñoz on, 6, 226, 241n319; Sedgwick and, 8, 33; in Since, 49; as utopian, 6, 226; Warhol’s, 7, 15, 30n93, 33, 47, 119, 183, 242

  queer theory, 7–8n20

  “race,” 182, 207; Mercer on, 220; modern understandings of, 204; and photographic medium, 195–97, 195n44; Warhol’s use of color black and, 213–24; whiteness and, 216, 240

  Race Riot paintings, 5, 50n151, 52, 107, 179, 180, 185, 186–210. See also Warhol, Andy, works by

  racialization, 181, 184–85n18, 197, 200, 207, 212, 216

  racial technology, 182, 195, 205

  racism, 93, 181, 184, 185n18, 191, 193, 196–97n49, 204–6, 208, 220; Jim Crow, 179, 205, 208, 249; Warhol’s, 184

  Ragona, Melissa, 67n45

  Raiford, Leigh, 185n20, 190–92, 190n29, 191n33, 191n36, 208n73

  Ramone, Joey, 19

  Raunig, Gerald, 121n94

  Rauschenberg, Robert, 23–24, 30–32, 53

  Reed, Lou, 80

  reification, 93, 148, 152, 156–58, 177

  Reinhardt, Ad, 22–23

  reparative practice: camp as, 70; and drag queens, 230, 239, 242; in the Factory, 29; and identity games, 33; Warhol criticism as, 34n106; Warhol’s, 32, 49, 51, 70, 183, 238–39, 242

  repetition: and affect, 97n31, 177; and cognitive mapping, 131; and consumption, 12; and liking, 12; in mass culture, 104; and mechanical reproduction, 20–23, 96; and trauma, 50n151, 207n69; in Warhol’s work, 4, 21–23, 50n154, 96n28, 101, 114n74, 159, 191n30, 198, 200, 206, 209

  resemblance: capacity for perceiving, 11; and collecting, 57–58; Lin on, 123; and race, 212, 215, 238; Screen Tests, 88; Warhol and, 6, 8, 13, 13n38, 14, 17, 21, 24; Warhol and Basquiat, 247, 251; Warhol and Judd, 177

  Reynolds, Ann, 214n83

  Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, 61

  Rice, Tamir, 204

  Richards, I. A., 94

  Richards, Keith, 237

  Richardson, Brenda, 31n98

  Richter, Gerhard, 13, 13n38

  Riesman, David, 12n36, 139

  Rodrigues, Laurie A., 244n142

  romanticism, 89, 129

  Rose, Jaqueline, 217n95

  Rosenquist, James, 23

  Ross, Diana, 181, 239

  Ross, Wilhelmina, Warhol’s portrait of, 228, 230–31

  Roth, Lorna, 197n49

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 83

  Scherman, Tony, 12n35, 14n41, 17n52, 33n102, 72n38

  Schoenberg, Arnold, 22n69

  Schor, Naomi, 215n86

  Scull, Ethel, 62, 64. See also Warhol, Andy, works by

  Sedgwick, Edie, 26, 32, 109n58, 117–19, 242, 246

  Sedgwick, Eve: on affect theory, 43n135; on Basquiat, 246; on queerness, 7n20, 8, 24, 32n100, 33; on sameness and difference, 5, 5n14; on Tomkins and mood, 43; on Warhol’s queerness, 246n146; on Warhol’s skin, 183n14, 242, 246

  Seltzer, Mark, 30n97, 97, 97n31, 99n39

  semblable, 5–6, 14, 40n122, 79

  Senchyne, Jonathan, 196

  seriality, 21–23, 22n69, 31n97, 61, 83, 96, 134, 151

  Shafrazi, Tony, 242

  shame, 31–32, 40n122, 100n44, 183–85, 206, 223, 246n146

  Short, Bobby, 181

  Siegel, Marc, 2n6, 181, 181n8

  Silverman, Kaja, 5, 5n14, 13, 13n38, 207n70

  similarity: and affect, 9; Benjamin on, 4, 19–20, 174; and civil rights movement, 15; and collecting, 57–68, 60, 76, 79; and consumption, 15; as discrete concept, 5; distorted, 130, 174; and emotional tie, 12; and minimalism, 147; Nancy on, 5; and nonidentity, 177; perception of, 11–12, 52, 79, 112, 147; as produced, 13, 52; and reification, 157; and singularity, 28; in Warhol’s work, 8, 20–23, 61, 80, 101, 212, 230

  Simmel, Georg, 18n56

  Simpson, O. J., 181

  Singerman, Howard, 90n3

  sitters (for portraits): celebrity status of, 64; drag and drag queens, 221–22, 224; and exclusivity, 77; as purchaser, 62–63; and Screen Tests, 80–82; skin of, 184, 211, 230–34

  skin: in Basquiat’s Dos Cabezas, 246; and racialization, 181–82, 195, 203–5; representation of, in Race Riot source image, 195–96; as represented in photographs, 196–97; Warhol’s, 7, 179, 183–84, 222; in Warhol’s work, 52, 182, 184, 204, 210–12, 217–18, 222, 230, 232, 236, 240

  Slate, Lane, 4n8, 9n24, 68

  sleep, 170–72, 171n86

  Smith, Bruce, 9, 9n23

  Smith, Jack, 181, 214, 219

  Smith, John, 3–4n7, 6n15, 55n8, 59n24, 69n50

  Smith, Patrick, 1n1, 14n41, 22n68, 167n77

  Smith, Rupert, 58

  Smithson, Robert, 91, 152, 156

  Snediker, Michael, 7–8n20

  Solanas, Valerie, 29

  Somerville, Siobhan, 246n148

  Sonnabend Gallery, 190

  Sorokin, Vladimir, 83

  spectatorship: and boredom, 164, 169; and collectivity, 241; and “disidentification,” 214–15; as doing, 49; and drag, 182, 219; film, 214; and Race Riot paintings, 185, 194–95, 205–6, 208–10; and repetition, 104, 122

  Spinoza, 39, 47, 51, 107, 176

  Spivak, Gayatri, 84n80

  Stadler, Gustavus, 67–68, 67n45, 70n53, 114, 115n79

  Stanton, Suzy, 15, 15n46

  star/stardom: desire to be, 63–64; drag and, 219, 222–23, 228, 236, 238–42; imitation of, 28–29, 108–10; Jackie Kennedy as, 48; Monroe as, 216–18; “of the out-take,” 24, 29, 32, 83; as possessed by spectators, 215–17; Warhol’s attraction to and interest in, 55n8, 63–64, 181; in Warhol’s films, 168; in Warhol’s paintings, 210, 214, 216–19, 250. See also celebrity

  Steele, Shelby, 192

  Stein, Gertrude, 150

  Stein, Jean, 26n82

  Stella, Frank, 91, 203

  Stern, Daniel, 85, 85n87, 112, 112n70

  Stewart, Michael, 58n22, 180

  stigma: and drag and drag queens, 223; and invert, 25–26, 30; and racialization, 193; reparative role of Pop Art in relation to, 183; the stigmatized person, 7, 116; Warhol’s own, 7, 32, 183–84. See also shame

  Stimmung. See mood

  Stimson, Blake, 14n41, 26n82

  Stonewall, 27, 44, 224

  Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), 220, 224–26, 239–42

  structures of feeling, 15, 160

  Stryker, Susan, 226

  stuplime, 129

  Suárez, Juan, 17n51, 162, 165

  sublimity, 91n7, 128–29, 137

  suicide, 5, 50, 56, 187n24, 207

  surrealism, 93, 123n97, 220n101

  Swenson, Gene: on Warhol’s repetition, 50n154, 179; “What Is Pop Art?,” 1, 1n1, 8, 13, 17, 96, 207

  Szczesniak, Magda, 31n98

  taste: and class, 38; for defects, 60; and drag queens, 219; Franzen on, 36n114; habits, 99–100; judgment of, 34, 139; and labor, 129; liking and aesthetic, 6, 35; and mood, 42

  Tavel, Ronald, 2, 2n6, 115, 165n74

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 16, 24, 28, 202, 211, 219. See also Warhol, Andy, works by

  Taylorism, 90–92

  Temple, Shirley, 26n82, 55–56n8, 109, 222. See also Warhol, Andy: Shirley Temple, admiration of

  theatricality, of minimalism, 144

  Third World Gay Revolution, 226

  Till, Emmett, 192, 192n36, 206n66

  Tomkins, Silvan: on affect/object, 65, 65n42; on affect theory, 43, 97n33; on cognitive activity, 145n33; cybernetic thinking, 97; on face as organ of affect, 80n73; on interest, 145

  trans
ference: and collecting, 57; Ferenczi on, 12n33; Freud and, 12, 12n34, 57n16, 141; and Judd’s work, 176; and Warhol’s work, 52, 164, 176

  “transitional object,” 37. See also Winnicott, Donald

  Tremaine, Emily, 210

  Tuchman, Mitch, 26n82

  Tucker, Irene, 203–4

  Tucker, Maureen, 84n83

  Turner, Lana, 215

  Turner, Sam, 204n63

  Turner, Tina, 238–39

  Twombly, Cy, 53

  Tyler, Parker, 162, 162n69, 164–65, 165n74, 214, 219

  Ultra Violet, 32, 71n55, 76

  Uroskie, Andrew, 162, 162n68, 162–63n70, 164, 169n80

  utopia, 6, 7n18, 95, 224, 226

  Varoufakis, Yanis, 132

  Vicki (queen), 228

  violence: Arm and Hammer’s, 249; prison conditions, 225; in response to civil rights movement, 179–80, 179n2, 204, 206–7, 209; and Warhol’s work, 5, 113, 176, 198, 200, 204

  Virno, Paulo, 17–18n53, 84, 84n81

  Viva Superstar, 32, 44

  von Stroheim, Erich, 162

  Wagner, Anne, 190, 191n30, 212–13

  Waldron, Louis, 44

  Walker, Kara, 196–97, 200, 207

  Wallace, Michele, 215

  Warhol, Andy: affection for pornography, 44n136; affect theory of, 34–51, 97; appearing affectless, 138, 176; boredom, 6, 107n51, 159, 161, 161n64, 176; on Brecht, 1, 13; capacity for affecting and being affected of, 57, 94, 122, 176; on celebrity and stardom, 181, 219, 236, 238–39; cock book, 71–75, 80; collaborations with Basquiat, 52, 180–82, 242, 242n142, 246, 249, 250; collections of, 6, 51, 53–55, 59, 68–69, 71, 76; as collector, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 44, 51, 53, 57–59, 61, 69, 75–77, 83; use of color, 202–4, 210, 215–16, 232n129, 232n130; and “commonism,” 13n40, 14, 14n41, 14n43, 15; concept of Sleep, 161–62; consumption, 14, 138; and drag and drag queens, 219, 221, 223n112, 228, 238–39, 242; and drugs, 17, 161, 170n85; and forgetting, 13, 67; on hallucinatory effects, 165, 174–76; identity games, 33, 74–75; interest, 4, 17, 52, 137–39, 159; liking, 1–52, 76, 77, 97–98, 116, 134, 137–39, 158, 159, 183, 222; not liking, 2n4; on love, 105–6, 179–80; and machines, 1, 97, 97n30, 161, 207; memory and collecting of, 64; mimetic appropriation of, 138; and minimalism, 159, 161, 174; misfitting, 7; and mood, 161, 170, 176; Norelco Carry-Corder, 67–68, 70, 114, 119; as “people collector,” 71; perfumes, 61–66; and plot in films, 160–61; problems, 69–70; producing boredom, 159; as producing likenesses, 5, 17, 20–23, 94, 101, 212, 215, 249; promotion of liking, 6, 49, 51, 109, 169–70, 179–80; queerness of, 7, 15, 30–33, 30n93, 183, 244–46; reception of his films, 2n6, 79n71, 160, 162–63, 165; reification, 177; in relation to abstract expressionism, 89; relaxation, 160; repetition in, 1, 20–23, 96, 110n63, 209; representing collectivities, 62; painting comics, 22–23; serial paintings of, 5, 21–23, 56, 61–62, 101, 110–11, 184, 209; silkscreen paintings of, 21–23, 50, 52, 61, 94, 100–101, 110, 113, 197, 200, 210, 230; on skin, 52, 179, 182, 184, 202–3, 205, 211–12, 230–34; own skin, 182–84, 183n14, 183n16, 246; talent for failure, 28–29, 60–61, 101, 110–11, 113–14, 120, 200, 204, 211, 217, 222–23, 232, 240–41; talent for fellatio, 168, 168n79; talent for liking, 2, 2n6, 3n7, 4, 6, 37–38, 43–44, 51, 53, 70, 98, 134; talent for producing likeness, 6, 27, 49, 51, 100–101, 109n58, 134, 181–82, 208, 212, 222, 228–30, 233, 238; Shirley Temple, admiration of, 109, 222; on thinking alike, 1, 8, 9, 9n24, 105; on time, 174–75; windows, looking out of, 159–60, 172

  Warhol, Andy, works by: A: A Novel, 1, 1n3, 56, 94, 119; A la Recherche du Shoe Perdu, 62; Andy Warhol’s Exposures, 2; Arm and Hammer II (with Basquiat), 250; Black and White Disaster #4, 61; Blue Movie, 43–44, 69; The Bottom of My Garden, 62; Campbell’s Soup Can paintings, 2, 3, 15–16, 21, 101, 107; Dance Diagrams, 52, 102–5, 108–11, 120–21, 169; “Death and Disaster” paintings, 50, 187, 187n24, 189, 190n26, 190n27, 209; Diaries, 12n35, 184, 223, 246–47, 249; Do It Yourself, 102, 106, 108, 110, 111n65; Dollar Bill paintings, 21, 21–22n67, 107; Eat, 114, 162; Empire, 159, 162, 172–74; Ethel Scull 35 Times, 61; Ethel Scull 36 Times, 61–62; Folk and Funk (as curator), 59–61; Henry Geldzahler, 114, 162; I Like Dance, 109; Jackie Frieze, 61; Kiss, 180; Ladies and Gentlemen, 52, 62, 181–82, 220–21, 226, 228, 236, 238, 240–42; Last Supper (Christ 112 Times), 62; Little King, 101; Make Him Want You, 101; Marilyn × 100, 61; Marilyn Diptych, 23–24, 210–19, 238; Multiplied Jackies, 47–48; Nancy, 101; $199 Television, 101; 129 Die, 190; Outer and Inner Space, 94, 114, 117–18, 117n84; Oxidation Paintings, 120; The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 8, 10, 13n37, 14, 16, 31, 66–67, 77, 83, 105–6, 115, 179, 182, 219; POPism, 29, 44, 47, 68, 78, 101, 114, 165; Race Riot paintings, 52, 107, 179–80, 182, 184, 186–210, 186n23, 190n26, 212–13; Raid the Icebox, 61; Red Elvis, 23–24, 212; Screen Tests, 6, 51, 77–88, 114, 175, 184, 212, 212n79, 223–24; Sex Parts, 44–45, 71; Shadows, 120; Since, 47, 49; Six Months, 212; Sixteen Jackies, 61; Sleep, 52, 159–72, 169n82, 174; Storm Door, 101; Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, 62; Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys, 77; Thirteen Most Beautiful Women, 77; Thirteen Most Wanted Men, 62, 77; Thirty Are Better Than One, 61; Torsos, 44–45; Thirty-Five Jackies, 61; This Week That Was, 47, 61; Time Capsules, 6, 56, 69, 71n55; Troy Diptych, 210; Tunafish Disaster, 107; 25 Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy, 62; 25 Colored Marilyns, 61; 210 Coca-Cola Bottles, 61

  Waring, James, 160

  Warner, Michael, 7n18, 7n20, 14–15, 31n99, 32n100, 215

  Waters, John, 242

  Waugh, Evelyn, 212

  Waugh, Tom, 44n136

  Weatherby, W. J., 217n95

  Weathers, Chelsea, 17n51

  Weber, Max, 96

  white supremacy, violence of, 185–86, 190, 192–95, 204, 206, 209. See also racism

  Whitman, Walt, 6–7, 83, 112

  Whitney Museum of American Art, 63

  Whyte, William, 139

  Williams, Esther, 28

  Williams, Linda, 118n86

  Winnicott, Donald, 37

  Wohlgefallen, translated as “liking,” 34n108

  Wolpert, Daniel M., 88n90

  Wood, Natalie, 22–24, 101–2, 110, 210, 214, 250. See also Warhol, Andy, works by

  Woodlawn, Holly, 181, 221

  Woronov, Mary, 17n52, 49

  Wrbican, Matthew, 6n15

  Wright, Russel, 53

  Young Lords, 226

  Zajonc, Robert, 34, 35n110, 98, 98n34

  Zapruder, Abraham, 47, 49

  Footnotes

  Introduction

  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.

  4 For instance, on films, in 1965: “Oh, I like them all” (IBYM, 65). And see Glenn O’Brien, “Interview: Andy Warhol,” High Times, August 24, 1977; reprinted in IBYM, 233–64 (on painters, 238; on movie stars, 254: “I like them all—I mean anyone who’s in a movie”). Asked in 1986 if he collected art, his response was “I like everybody’s art” (IBYM, 358). In a 1977 interview: “I like everybody” (IBYM, 272). At the end of a longer exchange in 1981, Edward Lucie-Smith asked Warhol, “Do you ever allow yourself to dislike people then?” Warhol responded, “No … I try … I really try not to” (“Conversations with Artists: Andy Warhol Talks with Edward Lucie-Smith,” January 27, 1981, BBC Script, 17).

  5 “The Slice of Cake School,” Time, May 11, 1962, 52. The story also featured short reports on Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist. Warhol, the o
nly artist pictured, is quoted as saying, “I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about. I’m working on soups, and I’ve been doing some paintings of money. I just do it because I like it.”

  6 Personal communication during “Warhol Week in Moscow” conference and film festival, Moscow, 2001. Tavel told David James that Warhol “would sit and watch [his own films] for endless hours with one leg crossed over the other and his face in his hands and his elbows on his knees, with absolute fascination and he was puzzled why the public wasn’t equally fascinated. When we stopped off at a screening of Empire to see how it was doing, and there were six people in the theater, he said, ‘Well, look at that. They’ll just pile in to see’—and he referred to some Hollywood blockbuster, you know—‘and nobody comes to see Empire.’ It was a genuine remark, he was not dissembling. He said to me, ‘Why don’t they come in droves to see Empire?’ So we should not think that these films were not interesting to him or that he didn’t want them to be interesting.” James, “The Warhol Screenplays: An Interview with Ronald Tavel,” Persistence of Vision 11 (1995): 51; quoted by Douglas Crimp, “Our Kind of Movie”: The Films of Andy Warhol (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), 140. Also see Tavel’s remarks in “Banana Diary,” in Andy Warhol Film Factory, ed. Michael O’Pray (London: BFI, 1989).

  Tavel was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, poet, and essayist who wrote the scenarios for several films directed by Warhol, including Vinyl (1965), Horse (1965), Kitchen (1965), and The Life of Juanita Castro (1965). On Tavel, see Matthias Haase and Marc Siegel, “Do It Again! Do It Again! An Interview with Ronald Tavel,” in “Jack Smith: Beyond the Rented World” (special issue, ed. Marc Siegel), Criticism 56, no. 2 (Spring 2014), and Douglas Crimp, “Coming Together to Stay Apart,” in Our Kind of Movie.

  7 She then adds, “You would make a great publicist.” Andy Warhol’s Exposures: Photographs by Andy Warhol, text by Warhol with Bob Colacello (New York: Andy Warhol Books/Grosset and Dunlap, 1979), 201. Another friend, Tony Berlant, recalls walking with Warhol in New York on West Broadway: “He looked up at the stoplight and said, ‘Streetlights, they’re just so great.’ You know, he could use that particular Warhol take on anything.” In Possession Obsession: Andy Warhol and Collecting, ed. John Smith (Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 2002), 120.

 

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