{"id":9823,"date":"2025-05-30T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/?page_id=9823"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T00:03:11","slug":"larry-rivers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/larry-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Larry Rivers, 1961
By Comet Photo AG (Z\u00fcrich) – ETH-Bibliothek: E-Pics Bildarchiv online; http:\/\/doi.org\/10.3932\/ethz-a-000870291 (cropped), CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=108383920<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Larry Rivers (1923 – 2002)<\/strong> was an “American painter, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the “Godfather” and ‘Grandfather’ of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction” (from Wikipedia<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll worked as Rivers’s assistant–sharpening pencils, stretching canvases, and baby-sitting–during the late sixties, early seventies. Carroll told Chet Flippo<\/a> (PDF), “If there was anybody from around the art scene who had an influence on me, it was Larry. This was a real cool dude. I even started to imitate his
walk.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rivers appears as “D.M.Z.” in “Christmas with D.M.Z.” in Forced Entries<\/em> (pp. 81-98). Rivers did the cover artwork for the first edition of Living at the Movies<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Larry Rivers (1923 – 2002) was an “American painter, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the “Godfather” and ‘Grandfather’ of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction” (from Wikipedia). Carroll worked as Rivers’s assistant–sharpening pencils, stretching canvases, and baby-sitting–during the … Continue reading Larry Rivers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9419,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-9823","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-2yr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8815,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/books-of-poetry-by-jim-carroll\/living-at-the-movies-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":9823,"position":0},"title":"Living at the Movies (First Edition)","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Get this book on Amazon Living at the MoviesFirst EditionPublished: 1973By: Jim CarrollPublisher: GrossmanLength: 100 pagesFormat: Hardcover and paperbackCover design: Larry Rivers The most remarkable thing about the first edition of Living at the Movies is the cover art by well-known painter\u00a0Larry Rivers, a close friend of Carroll's. 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Burroughs\u00a0| Joseph Campbell | \u00a0Tom Clark\u00a0|\u00a0Kurt Cobain\u00a0|\u00a0Salvador Dali\u00a0|\u00a0Edwin Denby\u00a0|\u00a0Bob Dylan\u00a0|\u00a0Lawrence Ferlenghetti\u00a0|\u00a0Allen Ginsberg\u00a0|\u00a0John Giorno\u00a0|\u00a0Richard Hell\u00a0|\u00a0Lenny Kaye\u00a0|\u00a0Jack Kerouac\u00a0|\u00a0Gerard Malanga\u00a0|\u00a0Ray Manzarek\u00a0|\u00a0Robert Mapplethorpe\u00a0|\u00a0Michael McClure\u00a0|\u00a0Henry Miller\u00a0|\u00a0Paul Morrissey\u00a0|\u00a0Forrest \"Frosty\" Myers\u00a0|\u00a0Phil Ochs\u00a0|\u00a0Frank O'Hara\u00a0|\u00a0Peter Orlovsky\u00a0|\u00a0Lou Reed\u00a0|\u00a0Arthur Rimbaud\u00a0|\u00a0Larry Rivers\u00a0|\u00a0Patti Smith\u00a0|\u00a0Robert Smithson\u00a0|\u00a0Terry Southern\u00a0|\u00a0Velvet Undergound\u00a0|\u00a0Anne Waldman\u00a0|\u00a0Andrea Warhol\u00a0|\u00a0Andy Warhol\u00a0 Index:\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4258,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/forced-entries-the-downtown-diaries-jim-carroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":9823,"position":3},"title":"Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Get this book on Amazon Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973Second EditionBy: Jim CarrollRepublished: 1998Publisher: PenguinFormat: PaperbackCover photo: Gerard MalangaCover design: Edward ODowd Forced Entries picks up Carroll's story on his twentieth birthday, just as he is entering New York's hip art scene. 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