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Art History 101 satisfied a credit requirement for us a couple summers ago, and we got the textbook super cheap. Though heavily worn, it is well worth holding onto for entries like this one on Roy Lichtenstein. We’ll even throw in a scan of the publishing data so you can cite this one in your own comic-book-themed writing projects!
Of course, you know our feelings about Lichtenstein’s famous works: Take a cool old comic, make it HUGE, and you’ve got awesomeness! But if you need a little more conceptual framework than that, read on.
Collector’s Guide: from Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 13th Edition, Vol. 2; by Fred S. Kleiner, 2010.
For an amazing visual introduction to Lichtenstein’s work—even that of the non-comics variety—and current exhibitions, see https://www.artsy.net/artist/roy-lichtenstein
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Since Lichtenstein has been mentioned, it would be only more interesting to post this: http://davidbarsalou.homestead.com/LICHTENSTEINPROJECT.html
A collection of the original panels that Lichenstein painted from without crediting them.
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Thank you for adding that information to this post.
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Seen a bit of this dude’s work. I once worked as a janitor for a collection agency, believe it or not, and the goof who was the boss there had a thing for pop art. I’m not making this up! Anyway, this guy had several Lichtenstein prints hanging up, also prints of Jackson Pollock, for who knows what the fuck reason. I doubt anybody (drones on the phones) appreciated it much. I sure as shit didn’t, but I kinda like Lichtenstein. Made more sense to me than Pollock, anyway.
The other building I worked in was worse. They had paintings of guys shooting pheasants.
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Cool story!
That we enjoy Jackson Pollock is no big secret. We will always enjoy something like big explosions of color and splatters more than some genteel rendering of the upper classes shooting birds for fun in their silly costumes a century or more ago. But that’s really just a matter of personal taste, isnt it? The middle class spends far too much time playing “art critic” and talking about what’s “good” or “bad” art. There are only two kinds of art: stuff you like, and stuff you don’t!
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More on Lichtenstein’s sources…
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Excellent and thorough work you’ve done there, David. Thank you for posting it here! It’s interesting to see Lichtenstein both praised and damned in the discussions you’ve included with each image. It’s also a great way to revisit some golden age comic book art that history might have slowly forgotten otherwise!
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