“I am Eat,” Robert Indiana announced to Vogue’s “Second Fame” food columnist Ninette Lyon when, in 1965, she interviewed him and fellow American Pop pioneer Andy Warhol for the magazine. Not only is the word EAT a recurring trope in Indiana’s work, and the last word Indiana’s mother spoke before she died, but it is also the title of a Warhol film in which the Midwesterner starred. “We had decided I would have an enormous meal,” Indiana told Lyon, “so we bought sixteen dollars worth of wonderful food. I had worked up a Tom Jones appetite, then just as we were about to shoot, Andy said, ‘No . . . this mushroom, that’s all, but make it last.’”
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