James Rosenquist : a retrospective / Walter Hopps and Sarah Bancroft.
By: Rosenquist, James.
Contributor(s): Hopps, Walter
| Bancroft, Sarah | Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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BookPublisher: New York : Guggenheim Museum, c2003Description: 415 p. (some folded) : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. ; 26 x 30 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0892072679.Subject(s): Rosenquist, James, 1933- -- Exhibitions | Painting -- United States -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 759.13 ROS
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Reference | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference | 759.13 ROS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 00065532 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Lipsticks, automobiles, dishwashers, men in business suits, spaghetti, rockets, airplanes, hairdryers, ice cream cones and pigtailed girls. James Rosenquist has always known how to combine these seemingly disparate but always all-American elements into whirlwind, billboard-sized collages of airbrushed surreal euphoria, slamming colors, patterns and objects into one another with the eye of an advertising man and the heart of a Pop artist. This momentous catalogue, published to accompany the first in-depth survey of the artist's work since 1972, will give long-overdue, in-depth attention to Rosenquist's singular achievement in American art. Extensive illustrations cover major works in diverse media, including work on paper that reveals the artist's process, as well as extensive new and archival photography. Essays focus on areas that have only been superficially addressed in the literature to date, bringing the level of Rosenquist scholarship up to that of his Pop art contemporaries. Curator Walter Hopps provides an overview of the artist's career; Julia Blaut considers the artist's source collages in the context of twentieth-century collage; Ruth E. Fine addresses Rosenquist's prints; art collector and former aeronautics researcher Eugene E. Epstein relates the artist's work to scientific phenomena. Also included are a definitive biography, exhibition history and illustrated chronology.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 17-Aug. 17, 2003, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Oct. 16, 2003-Jan. 18, 2004, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, July 2004-Oct. 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 406-411) and index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
James Albert Rosenquist was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota on November 29, 1933. He received an associate degree in studio art from the University of Minnesota. He went to work for a billboard company painting advertisements for movies, liquor, and soft drinks. In 1955, he received a one-year scholarship to the Art Students League in New York. He returned to sign painting and worked mostly for the Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, which painted some of the largest billboards in the world. He continued the work until 1960, when he quit after two co-workers fell from a scaffold and died.He became a pioneer of Pop Art in the 1960s. He is best known for F-111, which was made in 1964 and 1965 in part as a protest against American militarism. His autobiography, Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art written with David Dalton, was published in 2009. He died after a long illness on March 31, 2017 at the age of 83.
(Bowker Author Biography)