Lichtenstein (Basic Art Series 2.0)
<strong>The Pop star: When art went Whaam!</strong><br /><br />American painter <strong>Roy Lichtenstein</strong> (1923—1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a <strong>new art vocabulary for a new era</strong>.<br /><br />With his groundbreaking use of industrial production techniques and trivial, quotidian imagery such as <strong>cartoons, comic strips, and advertising</strong>, Lichtenstein joined contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist to <strong>reflect and satirize American mass media and consumer culture</strong>. Works such as <em>Look, Mickey!</em> (1961), <em>Drowning Girl</em> (1963), and <em>Whaam!</em> (1963), deployed mass production techniques, particularly <strong>Ben-Day dots printing</strong>, to create a blow-up effect and <strong>pixelated “dot†style</strong>, with which Lichtenstein has become synonymous.<br /><br />This book provides an essential overview of Lichtenstein’s career, tracing his earliest Pop statements through to later “brushstroke†retorts to Abstract Expressionism and reinterpretations of modern masterpieces. We look at his <strong>leading position in mid-century modernism, and the ways in which his works both critique and chronicle 20th-century America</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>About the series:</strong><br />Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:<ul><li> a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance <li> a concise biography <li> approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions</ul>