Warhol: The Biography by Victor Bockris

Author:Victor Bockris [Bockris, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Art, General, Individual Artists, Artists' Books, Essays, Monographs, Biography & Autobiography, Artists; Architects; Photographers
ISBN: 9780786730285
Google: NRmjRcSYXlgC
Amazon: 030681272X
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1989-01-01T11:00:00+00:00

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By August the mood of the Factory was changing. Paul Morrissey was having cubicles installed to encourage a business approach. Andy was looking for new directions. Gerard Malanga, who had been there since the beginning, was feeling burned out by the Warhol machine. Andy told him his problem was that he did not have enough to do to keep busy. Gerard resented Andy’s inquisitiveness about everything he did. He was also finding Andy’s constant search for publicity increasingly contemptible. “Gerard had this tremendous ego,’ said one observer. ‘He thought he was so wonderful and all these girls liked him and he really played it to the hilt. He was always after women constantly.’

Gerard was making a move to become a star himself, filming his own underground movies, publishing a book of poems, and demanding the rights to certain materials. This made Andy nervous. As Mary Woronov saw it, ‘Gerard was frustrated by his lack of power and got aggressive, but when he wanted too much he was thoroughly tortured by everyone. They’d just blow him up. Especially Warhol. He’d have him crying.’

Gerard wrote in a letter to Allen Ginsberg:

It seems the only way I can have Andy come to terms of respect and equality with me is if I alienate myself from the entire Factory scene which has been the snake pit of too much dishonesty, paranoia, competition, personal profit – the scene of too many throats being cut I have witnessed, walking away, always saying to myself: ‘Do Andy and Paul know what they’re doing?’ I’ve come to the conclusion that they know too well what they’re doing.

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