James Rosenquist

by Lobel, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780520253032
• ISBN10: 0520253035
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-04
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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 Rosenquistprovides a compelling perspective on the artist and on the burgeoning consumer culture of postwar America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Between the Billboard and the Studio	p. 9
Approaching History	p. 41
Rosenquist Repaints History: The Curious Case of President Elect	p. 67
Summer of '64: The World's Fair and the Limits of Pop	p. 97
F-111	p. 123
Conclusion	p. 155
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 193
List of Illustrations	p. 203
Index	p. 207
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.