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A book for all ages
I originally bought this book for my husband, who loves Roy Lictenstein, to read to our son. I bought it because I thought that my huband would love it. In fact, my son, who is a year and a half, also LOVES it, and it helped him learn the alphabet as well as some words. For those familiar with LIctenstein's work, it is interesting because all of the work existed and was put together for each letter. For example, the letter O has a picture of the oval office. It is an easy way for children -- of all ages -- to learn about words and art. ... Read more

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Whiz! Bang! Pop! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein has rendered everything from a comic-book cell and a warplane to a country landscape and a turkey in his trademark style drawn from printed advertisements and cartoons. A master mixer of popular culture and high art, Lichtenstein's painterly use of Benday dots and heavy outlines turned oil paintings into something they had never before come close to. This catalogue chronicles the evolution of his brushstroke and painterly style from the late 50s through the 90s, complete with photographs of the artist at work, and reproductions of paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Critic and scholar Dave Hickey's highly original and compelling personal essay challenges the way we traditionally think about Lichtenstein's art.
Essay by Dave Hickey.

11.5 x 10.25 in.
60 color illustrations ... Read more

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Roy Lichtenstein's distinctive paintings of the early 1960s are synonymous with the Pop art movement. These bold, oversized images inspired by newspaper advertisements and comic book scenes have been taken as reflecting the artist's fascination with the links between art and popular culture. In this highly readable and original book, Michael Lobel challenges this circumscribed view of Lichtenstein's work, offering a set of compelling new interpretations that reveal the artist's confrontation with a far wider range of issues. Lichtenstein's art is fundamentally engaged with a set of concerns central to art making in the postwar period: the relation between vision and technology, the possibility of articulating artistic identity, and the effect of mechanical reproduction on the work of art. Lichtenstein's project, Lobel argues, is structured by the tension between painting understood as a fully expressive, humanistic gesture and, conversely, as the product of a purely mechanical act.This handsomely illustrated book makes available for the first time an array of archival materials about Lichtenstein and his work, including photographs of the artist and many newly discovered sources for his imagery in the comics and advertisements of the early 1960s. It also provides new information on the context of the artist's Pop paintings in relation to contemporary developments in advertising culture, mechanical reproduction, and visual technologies. Examining the artist's work from fresh perspectives, the author not only offers a comprehensive analysis of Lichtenstein's early Pop paintings but also provides new insight into the issues that shaped the Pop art movement, artistic practices in the 1960s, and the historical relation between modern art and popular culture. ... Read more

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Finally a good Lichtenstein analysis
One of only a very few books on Roy Lichtenstein available is fortunately a very good one indeed. Includes an analysis of his work, his sources and influences, and his influence on contemporary art. Illustrations include some of the source material for his most recognized paintings. Smart, sensible, accessible, and attractive. ... Read more

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Superb illustrations, intelligent text!
Taschen triumphs again with a beautifully produced overview of Lichtenstein's entire career, with excellent reproductions of his major works and some less wellknown pieces. Essential. ... Read more

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Awesome
A cool examination of the conception, creation, execution and referents of a beautiful piece of public art. ... Read more

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Twelve years ago, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Arts for Transit commissioned Roy Lichtenstein to create a mural for the Times Square subway station at 42nd Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Fabricated by Lichtenstein in 1994, the mural was finally unveiled on September 5, 2002, a gift from the artist to all New Yorkers. Standing 6 feet high and 53 feet long, the mural provides a skyline view of a futuristic metropolis, as represented through Lichtenstein's trademark benday dots and comic book flair. The development of the mural is explored here through an essay by Harvard University scholar Scott Rothkopf and "Report on Miniaturization (Metropolis, 2030 A.D.)," a new, specially commissioned short story by Rick Moody. In this appropriately oversized book, viewers get a glimpse of Lichtenstein's creative process, interweaving motifs, and visionary themes, and of the four decades of art making and rich associations that went into the making of the Times Square Mural.

Essays by Scott Rothkopf and Rick Moody.
Introduction by Jack Cowart.

Paperback, 11 x 15 in., 49 color, 15 b/w illustrations ... Read more

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Pop art with more humor than Warhol ever dreamed of!
Some of Roy Lichtenstein's first works were humorous copies of Micky Mouse and Donald Duck that were done in part for his children.Thus her found both his trademark comic strip dots, and a charming sense of childlikeinnocence that can be found in most of his work.

Well, I'm a littlepartial, Roy Lichtenstein is one of my all time favorites, but this is abeautiful book.There are 350 full color reproductions and only 408 pages,so the majority of this book allows you to see the artist's work foryourself.

And what an incredible sample it is! The murals, the comicstrips, of course THE GIRLS, the surrealism.I love "Cow GoingAbstract".Who else could so lovingly mock every other artist! Carra, Picaso, Matisse, Magritte, Dali, Schlemmer- No one was safe!ButLichtenstein brought his own outlook to each of these artists, not merelycopying, but giving that childlike enthusiasm - bright colors and virtuallyno shading - to all of their works.

This book abounds with theinspirational material for Roy Lichtenstein's work - The Dali's are rightnext to Lichtensteins own versions.Even his Brushstrokes series makesmore sense when the little comic strip that inspired it is shown.

Thisbook is an absolute treasure.It's only fault - it needs a sturdierbinding!

Another gorgeous collection from the Guggenheim. ... Read more

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Organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, this exhibition catalogues represents preparatory sketches and drawings, collages and paintings by Roy Lichtenstein from 1985 to 1996.This was the last museum exhibition which the artist was personally involved before his death in 1997.The show traces his working process from beginning sketches to the final paintings.46 pp, 31 full color works, 1 gate-fold, essay by CAC curator David Brown and exhibition checklist.1997. ... Read more

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A key figure in the Pop Art movement, Roy Lichtenstein was inspired by images from comic books, newspaper advertisements, and mail order catalogues, cheaply printed images whose look was as far from "art" as the average person could imagine. With their basic hand drawn line, they were also about as archetypal as image making can get. In response to this dumb beauty of pulp imagery, and to the odd powers of simple black and white images to stimulate our appetite, Lichtenstein made some of his most essential, enduring paintings. The apparently simple paintings of single objects--a tire, a curtain, a sock, a diamond brooch, a golf ball--project riveting clarity, simplicity, and astonishing newness that are the bedrock of his art, and of Pop Art itself.

Essays by Robert Rosenblum and Frederic Tuten. ... Read more