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Roy Lichtenstein : all about art. / Roy Lichtenstein.

By: Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997.
Contributor(s): Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark) | Hayward Gallery | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: [Humlebæk, Denmark] : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2003Description: 144 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 8790029852.Other title: Hayward Gallery.Subject(s): Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997. -- Exhibitions | Art, Modern -- 20th century -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 759.13 LIC
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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 clich 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.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Aug. 22, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004, the Hayward Gallery, London, Feb. 26-May 16, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, June 24-Sept. 27, 2004.