James Rosenquist : pop art, politics, and history in the 1960s / Michael Lobel.

By:

Lobel, Michael

Contributor(s):

Rosenquist, James, 1933-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: An Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts bookPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2010.Description: x, 214 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0520267931 (pbk.)
9780520267930 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.13 ROS

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	759.13 ROS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100451930

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

James Rosenquist's paintings, with their billboard-sized images of commercial subjects, are utterly emblematic of 1960s Pop Art. Their provocative imagery also touches on some of the major political and historical events of that turbulent decade--from the Kennedy assassination to the war in Vietnam. In the first full-length scholarly examination of Rosenquist's art from that period, Michael Lobel weaves together close visual analysis, a wealth of archival research, and a consideration of the social and historical contexts in which these paintings were produced to offer bold new readings of a body of work that helped redefine art in the 1960s. Bringing together a range of approaches, James Rosenquist provides a compelling perspective on the artist and on the burgeoning consumer culture of postwar America.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michael Lobel is Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the M.A. Program in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory at Purchase College, State University of New York.