Red Grooms (SIGNED by Red Grooms: Deluxe Ed. with pop-up "yellow taxi")

GROOMS, Red / Arthur Danto / Timothy Hyman / Marco Livingstone

ISBN 10: 084782635X / ISBN 13: 9780847826353

Published by Rizzoli, N.Y. 2004, 2004

About this Item

This Deluxe Edition is hand SIGNED by Red Grooms, with an original colored 3-D Pop-Up/Multiple; limited edition of 400 numbered copies, signed & numbered on a label on front end paper (also designed by the artist); the pop-up is printed on a thick smooth paper, with one of its edges lightly attached to book's back board to keep it from moving -as issued by publisher; the taxi pop-up folds out to paper size: 18-1/4" x 11-1/4" and the actual pop-up -when opened- measures 9-1/2" long x 2-1/4" wide & stands 6" in. high.; the pop-up can easily be removed and placed in a permanent display case. The BOOK covers Groom's first fifty-years to the present. It includes many of his best-known and extravagant life-size environments of stores, subways, city scenes, a rodeo, his dynamic drawings and prints, and his new works and personal photographs that have never before been seen; text by Arthur Danto, M. Livingstone, and T. Hyman; with 260 colored plates of which many are full & double paged; 240pp, book size: 13 x 10in; glossy pictorial hard boards with red titles on cover and spine, with illustrated dust jacket and all housed in a thick cardboard slipcase; OF INTEREST: this pop-up/multiple taken out of the book with its signed & numbered label is often seen on Ebay under plexi glass going for $1000-$1500, and on ArtNet 2010(Lot 21805, Feb. 25, 2010) another one under plexi glass went for $1650; the pop-up/multiple, boards, dust jacket, slipcase and interior pages are all in MINT/EXCELLENT COND.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Grooms (SIGNED by Red Grooms: Deluxe Ed. with pop-up "yellow taxi")
• Publisher: Rizzoli, N.Y. 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084782635X
• ISBN 13: 9780847826353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • ILLUSTRATED

About this title

Synopsis

Best known for his extravagant life-sized artworks of stores, subways, and city scenes, Red Grooms populates these environments with offbeat, spirited, easily identifiable characters who strike a humorous chord. Intertwining sculpture with painting, his work transcends both traditional portraiture and caricature.

This is the first major book on Red Grooms's work published since 1984 and includes many drawings, personal photographs, and prints that have never been seen or published. Many of his famed sculpto-pictoramas appear in full color and some in gatefolds, such as Moby Dick Meets the NYPL, Tennessee Carousel, and The Marathon.

Grooms's 1995 Grand Central Terminal is still remembered by thousands as a peak artistic experience. Other environments include an agricultural building for the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, the beloved Ruckus Manhattan (complete with subway car and Brooklyn Bridge), and a Ruckus Rodeo commissioned by the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art. Mixed-media pieces highlight portraits of classic and contemporary artists, from Toulouse-Lautrec to Francis Bacon. Hollywood greats, historical figures, even Chuck Berry, have been immortalized in the exuberant Grooms style.

Arthur Danto writes on Red Grooms and the spirit of comedy; Marco Livingstone's introduction contextualizes Red Grooms's work in the art of his time and discusses his relationship to Pop, Happenings, environmental art, and developments in painting; a recent interview with Red Grooms by Timothy Hyman completes the text.

Grooms's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and around the world. The artist lives in New York City and Nashville, Tennessee.

About the Author

Arthur Danto is a retired professor of philosophy at Columbia University. He is the renowned art critic for The Nation.

Timothy Hyman is a British painter and writer.

Marco Livingstone is an art critic and curator who has written extensively on David Hockney, Duane Michals, and Jim Dine.