Billy Name: Andy Warhol with Inflatable Baby Ruth Bars / Silver Factory Hatje Cantz Verlag Suse’s disreputable husband

Suse’s disreputable husband

conveying a sense of fellowship

he weaves between recognizable human consciousness and expression

exactly thirty years later

Part of the Works on Whatever (WOW) series of artist-designed functional objects

Billy Name: Andy Warhol with Inflatable Baby Ruth Bars / Silver Factory Hatje Cantz Verlag Suse’s disreputable husbandIn this photograph by Billy Name, Andy Warhol is shown posing, his expression characteristically deadpan, with a clutch of giant inflatable Baby Ruth chocolate bars. Name, a lighting designer turned photographer, was also responsible for lining Warhols studio with foil and spray paint, creating the reflective environment for performances, films, and art production that became known as the Silver Factory. The Baby Ruth bars were commissioned by Warhol