Roy Lichtenstein: All About Art (Hardcover)

~ Michael Lobel (Author), Susan Ferleger Brades (Author), Poul Erik T0jner (Author), Martin Caiger-Smith (Editor), Michael Holm (Editor), Roy Lichtenstein (Author), David Sylvester (Contributor), Jack Cowart (Contributor), Avis Berman (Contributor)

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Asked why he painted pictures of pictures, Roy Lichtenstein replied that artists had, in a sense, always done so. The historical and actual power of the image is clear here, just as it is clear in Lichtenstein's iconic paintings, wherein he captured familiar objects with an exceptional graphic precision by way of the comic book. Whether he was representing a couch, a turkey, an artist's studio, or an emotional woman ("I don't care! I'd rather sink--than call Brad for help!"), Lichtenstein captured the essential cliché of the strong image. All About Art is all about Lichtenstein's lifelong fascination with and investigation of the image as image, a theme well borne out by the large group of pictures illustrated here in which different elements in the rhetoric of image formation are exposed: brushstrokes, stretchers, mirrors, graphic shorthand translations of other paintings, meticulous quotings of comic book imagery, flat iconic representations of commercial objects, etc. ZAP! BOOM! POW! to you. Accompanying texts include David Sylvester's last interview with Lichtenstein and an oral history of the artist, coordinated by Avis Berman.

Edited by Michael Juul Holm, Martin Caiger-Smith and Poul Erik Tøjner.~Essays by Avis Berman, Michael Lobel, Jack Cowart, David Sylvester and Poul Erik Tøjner.~Introduction by Susan Ferleger Brades.

Hardcover, 10 x 11.5 in./144 pgs / 85 color and 18 b & w.

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• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (March 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8790029852
• ISBN-13: 978-8790029852
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,237,736 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good exhibition catalogue, January 11, 2008

By	Claude Reich (Florianopolis, Brazil and Paris, France) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Not as complete as the catalogue for the 1994-1996 retrospective (supervised by Diane Waldman), this catalogue for the 2003 exhibition at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, the Hayward Gallery in London and the Reina Sofia in Madrid is nevertheless the best recent publication on Lichtenstein, encompassing his entire career, through enlightening essays (especially the one dealing with Pop Art according to Lichtenstein) and, above all, magnificent illustrations of seminal works (the 1961 Popeye, the 1962 Masterpiece, the 1963 In the Car, all in private collections and rarely seen). If you can still find a copy, it is definitely worth the investment.