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Lichtenstein Roy
Whaam! The Art and Life of Roy Lichtenstein
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The life of the great Pop Art painter Roy Lichtenstein, illustrated with his most famous artworks. In the newest of Abrams’ award-winning line of picture book biographies of artists, Susan Goldman Rubin evocatively explores Roy Lichtenstein’s work and life and his groundbreaking influence on the art world. In Roy’s long career as a teacher, artist, and innovator, he changed the way that people thought about art and how artists thought about their subjects, challenging people to see familiar sights with new eyes. Classically trained in painting and drawing, Roy found inspiration from cartoons, newspaper comics, and children’s booksimages most people didn’t consider serious” art. He also chose to paint, in meticulous detail, the building blocks of paintinga single brushstroke or the back of a canvasdrawing attention to the way that artists use these tools. Roy and the other Pop Artists, including Andy Warhol, broke down the rules about what makes proper subjects for fine art. In over a thousand paintings and numerous other works, Roy brought familiar images into new light and captured the imagination of the world. The book includes a bibliography, an index, and a list of museums where you can see Lichtenstein’s work.
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
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The most iconic works of Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) are widely known, reproduced, copied, and even parodied. However, the true diversity and complexity of his oeuvre is little understood, and the full scope of his career is largely absent from the existing literature. Presenting over 130 paintings and sculptures, as well as over thirty seldom- or never-before-seen drawings and collages, this book examines all periods in Lichtenstein's career, going well beyond his brushstrokes and the classic Pop romance and war cartoon paintings that made him famous. Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective features exciting new scholarship by an international team of distinguished curators, critics, and art historians. Essays by Yve-Alain Bois, Chrissie Iles, and Stephen Little, among others, give special consideration to Lichtenstein's historical influences, from Picasso and Cubism through Surrealism, Futurism, and British Pop. Contributions by James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff evaluate the artist's abstract work and late nudes. Complemented by photographs of the artist and his seminal exhibitions, the essays examine the various styles and subjects featured in paintings created throughout his lifetime. The inclusion of a complete chronology of Lichtenstein's life and work—compiled by Clare Bell of the Lichtenstein Foundation—makes this retrospective the most authoritative publication on the artist since his death in 1997.
Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio
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Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio is a portfolio of vivid and engaging photographs by Laurie Lambrecht, who was an administrative assistant to Lichtenstein for three years. She and the artist worked together daily, and the bond between them is evident in the photographs. Lichtenstein is shown working on two major series, Reflections and The Interiors. He is completely absorbed, oblivious to the camera, as he mounts ladders, assembles colors, composes, and steps back to consider the effect. During this period Lambrecht assisted in gathering material for a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. As a result, the photographs include scrapbooks and sketchbooks and other archival material that document Lichtenstein’s entire career. There are stencils of Ben-Day dots, clippings from newspapers and comic books, Polaroid snapshots, rolls of tape, and boxes of colored pencils. Lichtenstein encouraged Lambrecht to make photographs and was often pleased and amused by the results. These images offer fascinating insight into Lichtenstein’s working processes and source materials, as well as being vibrant works of art in their own right. In her essay Dorothy Lichtenstein, wife of the artist, recalls the collegial atmosphere of the studios in New York and Southampton in the early 1990s, a time of extraordinary productivity. Edward Robinson, an associate curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, describes Lambrecht’s process and approach.
Roy Lichtenstein, 1923-1997 (Taschen Basic Art)
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- From the off-the-wall pages to the canvas, comics recontextualized
- 96 pages
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In the late 50s and 60s, American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) became one of the most important exponents of Pop Art - that movement which transformed products of mass consumption and the entertainment industry into subjects for art. This apotheosis of banal, everyday objects simultaneously constituted a criticism of the traditional elitist understanding of art. Almost alone among artists, Lichtenstein pursued the question of how an image becomes a work of art. Wholly in keeping with the spirit of the Classical Modern, he held that it was not the "rank" of the picture's subject that lends the picture its artistic character, but rather the artist's formal treatment of it. To Lichtenstein, however, this position seemed far too broad to be seriously pursued. Developed in the early 60s, Lichtenstein's grid technique, with its allusion to the mass-production of graphic art, allowed the painter to give vent to his own artistic scepticism. In the 60s and 70s, Lichtenstein expanded his formal repertoire of techniques for creating distance and irony by means of an idiosyncratic process of abstraction and especially by his use of his numerous art quotations.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Blondes, beds, and black-and-white works sum up this selection of Roy Lichtenstein's series, based on an exhibition mounted at Vienna's famous Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2005. This substantial catalogue contains 80 essential color reproductions, some in high-quality foldouts, under three thematic groupings: early black-and-white works of the 60s; the woman as motif in his paintings from the 60s, 70s, and 80s; and his interiors, especially those from the 90s. Leading scholars in the field, including Michael Lobel and Avis Berman, newly illuminate the Pop master's oeuvre in the context of this juxtaposition of early and late periods. Also included are studio photographs, some of which have never been published before, and finally, a biography and bibliography related specifically to the exhibition themes.
Roy Lichtenstein Reflected
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Roy Lichtenstein Reflected presents a selection of paintings that treat ideas of reflections and doubling. A strategy that spanned Lichtenstein's career, mirroring was explored in his Reflections series of the 1980s, in which he used his early work as subject matter, fracturing it with mirrored glass. Reflected also includes drawings, source materials and exclusive clippings from the artist's notebooks.
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Demi and Parker's Happy Tears gets distro deal - Philadelphia Citypaper
Philadelphia Citypaper, PA - May 21, 7845
Demi and Parker's Happy Tears gets distro dealA multihyphenate whose previous film was the 2007 horror comedy "Teeth," the director is the son of painter Roy Lichtenstein. Sisters with a love-hate relationship? Boring! Let's parse, shall we?
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Smithsonian-set 'Night at the Museum' sequel couldn't be more lively - Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Sun, United States - May 21, 2009
New York TimesSmithsonian-set 'Night at the Museum' sequel couldn't be more livelyA Roy Lichtenstein pop-art woman cries. A balloon dog scampers about. Albert Einstein bobbleheads simplify complex equations -- even though, with all that nodding, it's tough to figure whether they're signaling yes or no. This sequel to 2006's Night at "Night at the Museum" sequel a better exhibit Night at the Museum 2, review Terminator Salvation and Night at the Museum: Battle of the
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Who's Afraid of Roy Lichtenstein? - mediabistro.com
mediabistro.com, NY - May 12, 2009
AFPWho's Afraid of Roy Lichtenstein?Hold your breath, art fans, because it's spring contemporary auction time. Sotheby's gets things started tonight with its evening sale, which includes a monumental Jeff Koons egg sculpture that looks poised to disgorge a young Robin Williams in rainbow Christie's Contemporary “Gets It Right” Christie's art auction nets 94 mln dlrs Sotheby's Spring 2009 Sale of Contemporary Art in New York Totals
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"Happy Tears" headed to theaters via Roadside
Reuters - May 21, 2009
Demi Moore as sisters who have a love-hate relationship," Roadside company president Howard Cohen said. An actor turned writer-director, the filmmaker -- whose previous film was the 2007 horror comedy "Teeth" -- is the son of painter Roy Lichtenstein.
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10 things you shouldn't miss at the Modern Wing - Northwest Herald
Northwest Herald, IL - May 24, 2009
10 things you shouldn't miss at the Modern WingPieces by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, among others, leap off the wall and are some of the better-known pieces of contemporary art. If you've only ever seen these in a magazine or on a poster, take some time to see them in person.
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