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

[Garson O'Toole]

I examined the 1995 edition of "Constructivism: Origins and Evolution"
on paper and found that the quotation located by Stephen falls within
a preface by George Rickey that is dated July 1967. There is a
separate preface for the revised edition that is dated December 27,
1994. This suggests that the original preface has been reprinted
without modification.

Cite: 1995, "Constructivism: Origins and Evolution: Revised Edition"
by George Rickey, [Preface to 1967 edition; Author: George Rickey;
Location: East Chapham, N.Y.; Date: July 1967], Page x, George
Braziller, New York. (Verified on paper)

[Begin excerpt]
The history of the past is fixed; one has but to find it. The history
of the present alters as one watches (sometimes because one watches),
and the relation of the actors changes like poles seen from a moving
train. Some of the artists I originally chose to study have changed
their style and have become, artistically, other people.

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." An original limitation to fifty artists
soon seemed too rigid.
[End excerpt]

I will try to access the 1967 edition in a week or three, but I think
the July 1967 date for the passage above is credible.
Garson

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU>
> Subject:      Warhol's "everyone will be famous" from Rivers' "everybody will
>              be famous"?
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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."
>
> 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?***:
>
> 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."
>
> Constructivism; origins and evolution, by George Rickey (G. Braziller, 1967) page x.
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
>
> *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.
> ***
> http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=warhol+predict+%22everyone+*+famous%22&tbs=,cdr:1,cd_max:Dec%2031_2%201968&num=10#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_max%3ADec+31_2+1968&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=+%22everybody+will+be+famous%22&pbx=1&oq=+%22everybody+will+be+famous%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=5919l8539l6l9177l7l7l0l0l0l0l54l323l7l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=d060f9bb033e8866&biw=1125&bih=830
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org