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- ↑ Blow Job Archived December 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Andy Warhol, POPism, (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980) pp 64, 65
- ↑ Peter Gidal, Andy Warhol - Blow Job, Afterall Books, 2008, blurb.
- ↑ Douglas Crimp, Our Kind of Movie: The Films of Andy Warhol, MIT Press, 2012, p.4
- ↑ Roy Grundmann, Andy Warhol's Blow Job, Temple University Press, 2003, p.19
