But most of the artists' subjects are not famous.
He convened focus groups in Cairo to compile lists of favorite recording artists, subjects that would appeal to listeners, and topics or artists that should be avoided.
The market for botanical art fluctuates, said Ms. Krieg, as various artists, subjects and even colors go in and out of fashion.
And Bearden himself was African-American, suggesting a different relationship among artist, subject and race in America.
The point, said Ingrid Sischy, Interview's editor, is that for artist, subject and viewer alike, "self-presentation can be an art form".
A New Yorker known for his fascination in psychology and cinema, he uses video to explore the relationship between artist, subject and viewer.
Photo by Eric Minh Swenson As a filmmaker who specializes on artist documentaries, I make creative decisions on how I'm going to interpret my artist subject and which method I'm going to use to film them in their space.
As it progresses, "Memphis" builds power, growing from a journeyman approach that echoes the lives of its workman-artist subjects.
In each case he used his artist-subject as a portal to explore seminal cultural moments, draping the viewer in a nonlinear fabric of color, film and sound.
It's particularly satisfying to see one generation of appropriators given a dose of its own medicine by the next, and Warhol is not the only artist subjected to this poetic justice.
