Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes, Four Decades

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From Library Journal Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name mounted in New York City by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, the new representatives of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate, this catalog chronicles the genesis and evolution of Lichtenstein's reconstituted brushstroke. Hickey, a cult figure, author (The Invisible Dragon), and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, opens the catalog with an essay that, while somewhat presumptive in its interpretation of Lichtenstein's intentions, offers keen insights into the period in which the artist came of age. Hickey also reacquaints the reader with the wry wit and shrewd conceptualism of Lichtenstein's artistic transliterations. Denuded of all text, the catalog of plates following Hickey's essay appears to be geared toward encouraging aesthetic appreciation of Lichtenstein's work. However vivid and revelatory on their own, they would be better suited to researchers were titles and dates to appear beside each plate rather than at the book's end. Both exhibition and catalog unearth a body of previously undocumented artistic studies by Lichtenstein and therefore provide fertile but still largely uncharted territory for future scholarship. Recommended for collections focusing on modern art. Savannah Schroll, Smithsonian Institution Lib., Washington, DC Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Read more About the Author One of the most beloved and American of Pop artists, Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923 in New York, and studied there at the Art Students League and later at Ohio State University, in the midst of which he completed a three-year tour of duty in the US Army. His early work was based on American genre and history painting, and took on Cubist and Expressionist styles. His first proto-Pop work was created in 1956; his first Pop Brushstroke painting appeared in 1965. This catalog represents the first major survey of Lichtenstein's work since he died in 1997 in New York. Read more

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