Andy Warhol's Factory epitomizes the dichotomy between capital and culture in art. By choosing the word 'factory', Warhol designated his studio--a space that is stereotypically purely creative--to be associated with industrial manufacture. Warhol's Factory existed from 1964 to 1968. In this time, more than five hundred works of art were completed, including silk screens, photographs, work on film, an album and a novel. In addition to the artists, designers and photographers who produced the Factory work, many musicians, performers and other personalities of the New York underground were known to have worked on some of Warhol's many projects at the Factory. As in any commercial industry, the work of the employee belongs to the company; whatever varying degrees of collaboration may have existed between Warhol and the Factory 'workers', the end results were attributed to Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol's Index (Book) exemplifies the Factory's communal process. The many contributors to Warhol's Index imagined it as an adult pop-up book. Each copy included ten inserts between the bound pages: a pop-up Hines Tomato Paste can, a pop-up castle, a folded geodesic dome, a sheet of stamps to be placed in water, a paper accordion, a pop-up biplane, a "Chelsea Girls" pop-up, a functional 45 R.P.M. flexi-disc record with a portrait of Lou Reed; a fold-out overlay, described as a 'do-it-yourself nose-job' and a silver painted balloon. Both foil cover and cloth cover editions of the book are shown here.

1. Andy Warhol Enterprises. Ostfildern: Indianapolis: Hatje Cantz; Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2010.
2. Stephen Shore. The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-1967. London: Pavilion, 1995.
3. Stephen Shore, David Paul, Nat Finkelstein, and Billy Name, eds. Andy Warhol's Index (book). Black Star Book. New York: Random House, 1967.
4. Stephen Shore, David Paul, Nat Finkelstein, and Billy Name, eds. Andy Warhol's Index (book). Black Star Book. New York: Random House, 1967.