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Lichtenstein (Hardcover)
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Lichtenstein (Hardcover)
Series: Basic Art Series
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List price R477
Loot Price R394
Discovery Miles 3 940
You Save R83 (17%)
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American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) pioneered a new epoch
in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract
Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art
vocabulary for a new era. With his groundbreaking use of industrial
production techniques and trivial, quotidian imagery such as
cartoons, comic strips, and advertising, Lichtenstein joined
contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist to reflect
and satirize American mass media and consumer culture. Works such
as Look, Mickey! (1961), Drowning Girl (1963), and Whaam! (1963)
deployed mass production techniques, particularly Ben-Day dots
printing, to create a blow-up effect and pixelated "dot" style,
with which Lichtenstein has become synonymous. This book provides
an essential overview of Lichtenstein's career, tracing his
earliest Pop statements through to later "brushstroke" retorts to
Abstract Expressionism and reinterpretations of modern
masterpieces. We look at his leading position in midcentury
modernism, and the ways in which his works both critique and
chronicle 20th-century America. About the series Born back in 1985,
the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book
collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series
features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre
of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical
importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with
explanatory captions
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