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Rivers's public persona as an artist combines that of bohemian outsider, sensualist and entertainer. His best-known images of the 1960s--Dutch Masters cigars, French money, cigarette packs--became Pop icons. Eschewing abstraction, he came up with startling, disquieting figures, such as his obese, sagging mother-in-law depicted in the nude with brutal honesty ( Double Portrait of Berdie ). Yet there is more to Rivers than the hipster, as this lavishly illustrated monograph by a former Princeton art historian shows. Hunter makes a case for Rivers as a social realist: witness his powerful construction piece Ghetto Stoop or recent works that include searching portraits of Primo Levi, Leonard Bernstein and New York's ex-mayor Ed Koch. In History of Matzoh , a collage-like chronicle of the Jewish people, Rivers (born Yizroch Grossberg in 1923 in the Bronx) explores his Jewish roots. His latest series of 3-D paintings encompasses dancers, movie stars, Chinese and surrealist motifs.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong). A very good copy in very good dust jacket with slight rubbing and browning, minor nicks to jacket; slight internal browning to edges. 294 pages. Notable for the essay ('A Memoir') by Frank O'Hara as well as the tipped-in color plates; includes biographical chronology and bibliography. Freitag #8235 (date from this source; not dated in book); see Smith B21 (O'Hara).66 Color & 180 b/w Illustrations. Seller Inventory # L059484