Andy Warhol: Redesign
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Dance Diagram: Fox Trot<br />
1962<br />
Acrylic on linen<br />
72 x 54 in<br />
with his family’s stories—memories of the Old Country.<br />
Later on as a student in America he was to wander<br />
“through the Czech ghetto with the babushkas and overalls<br />
on the clotheslines.” These years were to give him a thorough<br />
understanding of the true nature of America. Here<br />
at the department store he was surrounded by a glamorous<br />
world which was completely out of his reach. “I had a job<br />
one summer in a department store looking through Vogues<br />
and Harper’s Bazaars and European fashion magazines for<br />
a wonderful man named Mr. Vollmer. I got something like<br />
fifty cents an hour and my job was to look for ‘ideas.’ I don’t<br />
remember ever finding one or getting one. Mr. Vollmer was<br />
an idol to me because he came from New York and that<br />
seemed so exciting. I wasn’t really thinking about ever going<br />
there myself, though.” When he finally moved to New York<br />
it was Carmel Snow, legendary editor of Harper’s Bazaar,<br />
who helped him most when he first arrived.<br />
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