James Rosenquist (Hardcover)

Judith Goldman

ISBN 10: 0847864014 / ISBN 13: 9780847864010

Published by Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2018

About this Item

Hardcover. This momentous catalogue, published to accompany an in-depth survey of the artist as a history painter in the 1960s through 1980s, will give long-overdue, in-depth attention to Rosenquist's achievement in American art. A must-have for lovers of Pop Art and those who bought books on Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this book focuses on James Rosenquist as a history painter, who captured what he saw in the world around him, rather than just under the Pop label. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: James Rosenquist (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847864014
• ISBN 13: 9780847864010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A fresh look at this giant of 1960s Pop Art--featuring his billboard-sized images of commercial subjects and combining his eye of an advertising man and the heart of a Pop artist.

Lipsticks, automobiles, dishwashers, men in business suits, spaghetti, rockets, airplanes, hairdryers, ice cream cones and pigtailed girls: James Rosenquist (1933-2017) has always known how to combine these seemingly disparate but always all-American elements into whirlwind, billboard-sized collages. With airbrushed surreal euphoria, he slammed 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 of the 1960s through 1980s, will give long-overdue attention to Rosenquist's singular achievement in American art during these three decades.
From 1957 to 1960, Rosenquist earned his living a billboard painter. This was perfect training, as it turned out, for an artist about to explode onto the pop art scene. Like other pop artists, Rosenquist adapted the visual language of advertising and pop culture (often funny, vulgar, and outrageous) to the context of fine art. An informative essay by art historian Judith Goldman examines the influence of Rosenquist's early days as a billboard painter, his early themes and techniques, and his similarities and differences with other pop artists like Warhol and Lichtenstein. The essay focuses 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.
For any collector of American art, this gives attention to Rosenquist's singular achievement in American art during these three decades.

About the Author

Charles Baxter is an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. Judith Goldman is an American curator and former chief curator of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.