Warhol's "everyone will be famous" from Rivers' "everybody will be famous"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Either way, Warhol's claim is more realistic.

JL

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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> As Garson posted,* Time Magazine, October 13, 1967 reported:
> Whole new schools of painting seem to charge through the art scene with the speed of an
> express train, causing Pop Artist Andy Warhol to predict the day "when everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
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> Might this famous quote have been inspired by or borrowed from a similar quote on a similar art subject by another NY artist from a book published earlier (**) that same year?***:
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> The art explosion introduces so many new names and new kinds of work that we are approaching the time when, as Larry Rivers says, "Everybody will be famous."
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> Constructivism; origins and evolution, by George Rickey (G. Braziller, 1967) page x.
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> Stephen Goranson
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> *Cite: 1967 October 13, Time, Sculpture: Master of the Monumentalists,
> Time, Inc, New York. (Online Time magazine archive) link
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837402,00.html
> [Begin excerpt]
> In the year 1967, the styles and statements of America's brash,
> brilliant and often infuriating contemporary artists have not only
> become available to the man in the street, but are virtually
> unavoidable. And with proliferation comes confusion. Whole new schools
> of painting seem to charge through the art scene with the speed of an
> express train, causing Pop Artist Andy Warhol to predict the day "when
> everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
> [End excerpt]
>
> **amazon claims it was punlished Jan. 1, 1967, but I haven't confirmed that.
> ***
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