Dear Vanessa,
Don't worry: the blob is supposed to be there. In our copy the blob is
pasted on a photograph of Warhol and friends on the roof of a building.
Warhol is holding something like a flag on which the blob functions like a
balloon.
I agree with your conservator: it looks like (petrified) bubblegum.
Beste regards,
Roman Koot
Utrecht University
At 03:52 PM 3/20/01 EST, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues:
>
>Do you own a copy of the following in your library?(:)
>
>Andy Warhol's index (book) With the assistance of Stephen Shore [and
>others] and particularly David Paul. Several photos. by Nat Finkelstein.
>Factory fotos by Billy Name.
>Imprint: New York, Random House, 1967.
>
>If so, can you please check to see if your copy has a brown blob (somewhat
>circular, about 2 inches in diameter) stuck between the inside back cover
>and back flyleaf?
>
>The blob exists in our copy and we're wondering if it's really part of the
>book or if some clever reader felt like making their mark on Warhol's work.
>
>Our book conservator thinks it may be bubblegum.
>
>Any information on this bewitching blob will be highly appreciated.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Vanessa
>
>
>
>
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>D. Vanessa Kam
>Assistant Art Librarian
>Art and Architecture Library
>Cummings Art Building, Main Floor
>Stanford University
>Stanford, CA 94305-2018
>(650) 725-1038
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