James Rosenquist

by Rosenquist, James

• ISBN13: 9780892072675
• ISBN10: 0892072679
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Pubns

Summary

Lipsticks, automobiles, dishwashers, men in business suits, spaghetti, rockets, airplanes, hairdryers, ice cream cones and pigtailed girls. James Rosenquist has always known how to combine these seemingly disparate but always all-American elements into whirlwind, billboard-sized collages of airbrushed surreal euphoria, slamming colors, patterns and objects into one another with the eye of an advertising man and the heart of a Pop artist. This momentous catalogue, published to accompany the first in-depth survey of the artist's work since 1972, will give long-overdue, in-depth attention to Rosenquist's singular achievement in American art. Extensive illustrations cover major works in diverse media, including work on paper that reveals the artist's process, as well as extensive new and archival photography. Essays focus on areas that have only been superficially addressed in the literature to date, bringing the level of Rosenquist scholarship up to that of his Pop art contemporaries. Curator Walter Hopps provides an overview of the artist's career; Julia Blaut considers the artist's source collages in the context of twentieth-century collage; Ruth E. Fine addresses Rosenquist's prints; art collector and former aeronautics researcher Eugene E. Epstein relates the artist's work to scientific phenomena. Also included are a definitive biography, exhibition history and illustrated chronology.

Table of Contents

Connoisseur of the inexplicable	p. 2
James Rosenquist: collage and the painting of modern file	p. 16
Off the continental divide and other risky journeys	p. 44
Painting and sculpture: with texts on selected themes	p. 56
Anonymity, celebrity, and self-promotion	p. 72
Modern issues and current events	p. 126
Rooms with a view: walk-in paintings	p. 148
Flora and florida: "crosshatched" paintings	p. 204
Space and scientific phenomena	p. 230
An astronomer observes and feels James Rosenquist's art	p. 232
Source collages	p. 278
Drawings	p. 308
Graphics and multiples	p. 332
Chronology	p. 368
Exhibition history	p. 388
Selected bibliography	p. 406
Index of work reproduced	p. 412
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