Roy Lichtenstein's distinctive paintings of the early 1960s are synonymous with the Pop art movement. These bold, oversized images inspired by newspaper advertisements and comic book scenes have been taken as reflecting the artist's fascination with the links between art and popular culture. In this study, Michael Lobel challenges this circumscribed view of Lichtenstein's work, offering a set of interpretations that reveal the artist's confrontation with a far wider range of issues. Lichtenstein's art is fundamentally engaged with a set of concerns central to art-making in the postwar period: the relation between vision and technology, the possibility of articulating artistic identity, and the effect of mechanical reproduction on the work of art. Lichtenstein's project, Lobel argues, is structured by the tension between painting understood as a fully expressive, humanistic gesture and, conversely, as the product of a purely mechanical act. This illustrated volume makes available an array of archival materials about Lichtenstein and his work, including photographs of the artist and sources for his imagery in the comics and advertisements of the early 1960s. It also provides information on the context of the artist's Pop paintings in relation to contemporary developments in advertising culture, mechanical reproduction and visual technologies. Examining the artist's work, the author offers a comprehensive analysis of Lichtenstein's early Pop paintings and seeks to provide insight into the issues that shaped the Pop art movement, artistic practices in the 1960s, and the historical relation between modern art and popular culture.
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"A timely, engaging, and even provocative study of this important artist..." -- Ann Gibson, University of Delaware
"Michael Lobel brings to light, for the first time, the acute aesthetic intelligence at work in the paintings of Roy Lichtenstein." -- Thomas Crow, director, Getty Research Institute
"Michael Lobel brings to light, for the first time, the acute aesthetic intelligence at work in the paintings of Roy Lichtenstein." -- Thomas Crow, director, Getty Research Institute
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Michael Lobel is assistant professor of art history at Bard College.
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Finally a good Lichtenstein analysis
10 Aug 2002
By R. Riis
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One of only a very few books on Roy Lichtenstein available is fortunately a very good one indeed. Includes an analysis of his work, his sources and influences, and his influence on contemporary art. Illustrations include some of the source material for his most recognized paintings. Smart, sensible, accessible, and attractive.
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Roy Lichtenstein: Image Duplicator
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By Trina Knight
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This is a fantastic book, beautifully illustrated and well-written. A must for all admirers of Lichtenstein's work.
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Academic diatribe
26 Aug 2010
By M. Beamish
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This is art speak at its best - contains a lot of valuable information if you really search for it. The text reads more like a thesis rather than a book. Lots of bulking to fill the covers and a tendency to give the inconsequential consequence. For the academic there are a lot good references, quotations and examples of pompous phraseology. Pity it was not written in plain English - it would have been a ripper!
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