Larry Rivers

Sam Hunter

ISBN 10: 0810904519 / ISBN 13: 9780810904514

Published by Abrams, 1969

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[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] [ Water Damage: SLIGHT, doesn't affect use ] Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, INC Pub Date: 1/1/1969 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 294 First edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Larry Rivers
• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810904519
• ISBN 13: 9780810904514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Book by Hunter, Sam

From Publishers Weekly

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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