Signed First Edition Viva 1970 Superstar Andy Warhol Factory Film Star Novel
Inscribed by Viva and her husband Michel on the FFEP. DJ has shelf-wear present (chip present to the crown & heel of the DJ spine).
Bound in half cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities.
Text is clean and free of marks. Viva (born August 23, 1938) is an American actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar. Viva began her career in entertainment as a model and painter. She retired from both professions however, claiming that she believed painting to be a dead medium, and describing her time as a model as, ...A period of my life I would rather forget. She was given the name Viva by Andy Warhol before the release of her first film but later used her married last name (Auder). She appeared in several of Warhol's films and was a frequent guest at The Factory. Signed First Edition Viva 1970 Superstar Andy Warhol Factory Film Star Novel.
Up For Sale Today is. Viva's film career began in 1967, when she began filming Ciao! Manhattan, which was not completed until 1972. Viva approached Andy Warhol about being in one of his films, on the suggestion of her friend, actress Abigail Rosen McGrath. Warhol agreed, but only on the condition that Viva take off her blouse for the role.
Viva responded by adhering bandaids to her breasts and visiting Andy at The Factory. Viva appeared in many of Warhol's films. The first, Tub Girls, consists of Viva lying in a bathtub with various people of both sexes, including Brigid Berlin and Rosen McGrath. [5] She also appeared in Bike Boy, a film centered around a motorcyclist trying to find himself;[6] and The Nude Restaurant, in which she played a waitress, opposite Taylor Mead. By far, Viva's most controversial role was in Blue Movie, a seminal film in the Golden Age of Porn that helped inaugurate the "porno chic" phenomenon in modern American culture. Viva played opposite Louis Waldon. The film consists of improvised dialogue between Viva and Waldon about a multitude of topics, including The Vietnam War, President Nixon, and various mundane tasks. These conversations are interrupted by the main event of the film, in which Viva and Waldon actually perform sexual acts in front of the camera.Following Solanas' attempt on Warhol's life, Viva developed a close, personal friendship with Warhol's mother, Julia Warhola. Returning from the hospital, however, Andy accused Viva of utilizing his absence to spy on his work and his mother, creating a rift in a relationship that was never repaired.
Viva's first starring role in a non-Warhol film was in Agnes Varda's Lions Love in 1969. The film features Viva in a ménage à trois with Gerome Ragni and James Rado.
On November 1, 1968, Viva appeared on The Tonight Show on an evening that was guest-hosted by Woody Allen. Four years later Allen cast her in his 1972 film Play It Again, Sam in the roll of Jennifer. After she began making films for other directors she also began writing. Her first book, Superstar, was an insider's look at the Factory scene, a partly fictional autobiographical account of her time there.
It was distinguished from other "tell-all" memoirs by virtue of her writing, which incorporated various stylistic effects, including the use of taped conversations. She also wrote for various publications, including The Village Voice and New York Woman. Viva incorporated the use of video tapes into her second book The Baby.
These tapes were later released by her former husband, video artist Michel Auder, as Chronicles: Family Diary in three parts. She was the narrator for Carla Bley's 1971 experimental jazz composition Escalator over the Hill. Viva was one of the early pioneers in Video art. During the 1970s Viva was a guest participant in Shirley Clarke's Teepee Video Space Troupe, which she formed in the early 1970s.
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Get Images that Make Supersized Seem Small. Tailor your auctions with Auctiva's. The item "Signed First Edition Viva 1970 Superstar Andy Warhol Factory Film Star Novel" is in sale since Monday, July 24, 2017. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "lastexitbooks" and is located in Brooklyn, New York. This item can be shipped worldwide.- Subject: Literature & Fiction
- Topic: Andy Warhol New York Art World Scene
- Original/Facsimile: Original
- Binding: Hardcover
- Special Attributes: 1st Edition
- Publisher: G P Putnam
- Place of Publication: New York
- Year Printed: 1970
- Author: Viva
- Region: North America
- Language: English
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States