Beschreibung:

[Warhol, Andy]
Some/thing: A Vietnam Assemblage
New York: David Antin & Jerome Rothenberg, Winter 1966. Volume Two, Number One. 8vo. Unpaginated (80 pp.). Edited by Antin and Rothenberg. Illustrated with printed collages with overprinted text throughout. Original Andy Warhol designed offset lithographic limp wrappers, composed of perforated postage stamp paper, front wrapper printed with "Bomb Hanoi" and "some/thing Hanoi"; wear in corners of interior front wrapper and facing corners of first page from stamp glue; similar wear at bottom hinge of same; in plexi-glass display case.
A scarce and very well-preserved Andy Warhol oddity. Some/thing was a literary magazine edited by David Antin and Jerome Rothenberg and that published work by some of the most significant American avant-garde poets of the day, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, and Gerard Malanga When Antin first approached Warhol about creating the cover for a Vietnam War-themed issue of Some/thing, the artist was enthusiastic, and initially wanted to use a Viet Cong flag for the design. Antin, however, insisted instead on using and subverting a pro-war slogan in the form of a button or sticker. As Antin told Gerard Malanga “I don’t know too much about the Vietcong, and neither do you or Andy. But what we do know about are the American warmongers. So what I want is for Andy to take one of their idiot slogans and fuck it up any way he likes for our cover. That way any member of the American Legion could pick up a copy on a news stand and maybe read it.” This issue features contributions by Rothenberg, Allen Ginsberg, Jackson Mac Low Carol Berge, Charles Bukowski, Gerard Malanga Dick Higgins Robert Bly, George Economou, Robert Kelly Carolee Schneeman, and many more.