James Rosenquist

Ratcliff, Carter; Rothkopf, Scott; Bancroft, Sarah

ISBN 10: 1905620136 / ISBN 13: 9781905620135

Published by Haunch of Venison, London, 2009

About this Item

Limited edition of 2500. In a red cloth hardcover with embossed titles to front. With an unclipped dust jacket with black titles to spine and coloured illustrations to front and back. Cream end papers. 78 pp. of coloured illustrations, some fold-out. The book and the dust jacket are in as new condition. The cover free of shelf-wear, the binding tight and the pages clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: James Rosenquist
• Publisher: Haunch of Venison, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905620136
• ISBN 13: 9781905620135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: James Rosenquist
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This substantial new catalogue is a major addition to existing scholarship on the important American artist James Rosenquist. Featuring numerous gatefold images, different papers and a silk ribbon, it contains commissioned essays by Carter Ratcliff--who argues that to label Rosenquist a Pop artist is to deny the complexity of his oeuvre and diminish his achievement--and Sarah Bancroft, who suggests that the notion of abstraction is key to understanding all of Rosenquist's work, from 1960 onward, and not just the "overtly abstract" paintings of the past seven years. In addition, in a wide-ranging interview with Scott Rothkopf, the artist discusses the place of political engagement in his work, the importance of collage, his ongoing fascination with time and the element of excitement: "It's like taking drugs. It has to be exciting to be able to paint it. You have to feel it's worthwhile doing it, to really pull it off."