Review
"The last century had no shortage of icons and divas, but few are as universally and instantly recognizable as Marilyn Monroe. Robert G. Taylor has compiled a visual tribute to MM in Marilyn in Art (Pop Art Books, $40, hard cover), 194 large full-color pages of Marilyn, as remembered and depicted by artists, fans, publishers and photographers. In addition to the images, every page bears one or more verbal tributes or reminiscences from a who's who of admirers, including a certain U. S. President. A must-have volume for any fan."-- Echo Magazine
Product Description
Once described as the only blonde in the world, Marilyn Monroes impact in the course of her brief film career was so great that her image remains one of the most potent and poignant of our time, combining waiflike innocence with glittering eroticism, worldliness with profound vulnerability. Much photographed during her lifetime, Marilyn has since been a constant source of inspiration to artists, from Andy Warhol and noted fine artists to the graphic studios who mass produced greetings cards bearing her likeness. Some see her as the public saw her - sensual, half-open mouth, dreaming eyes, heavy, always just-covered breasts. To others, she is the subject of fantasy - bizarre, erotic, expressionistic - an emblem of pure sex, or the embodiment of the wholesome American Dream.
It is the work of these artists that are presented here from around the world, a true testament to her global impact. These portraits exercise artistic licence to the full, but in which there is little that does not connect at some point with the original model in all her fascination, a unique and universal fascination which, forty three years after her death, shows no sign of diminishing.
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