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Dewey Decimal Number: 709 EAN: 9780892072675 ISBN: 0892072679 Label: Guggenheim Museum Manufacturer: Guggenheim Museum Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 472 Publication Date: 2003-10 Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Release Date: May 02, 2003 Studio: Guggenheim Museum Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 20th-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. The imagery was expendable to me but it was the color and texture that I was interested in, for instance, if I thought I felt like painting red I might have painted a great big tomato. --James Rosenquist (1972) Essays by Julia Blaut, Ruth E. Fine, Walter Hopps and Sarah Bancroft. Clothbound, 11.75 x 10 in./472 pgs / 346 color 50 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20157 Average Rating:
 Rating: - best rosenquist book to haveif i were to ever own just one of rosenquist's books, this would be it. it is the most thorough, colorful pictures and good information. definatly worth every penny. Rating: - Great!As a catalog of the Rosenquist Retrospective at the Guggenheim, this is probably, if not, the best and most comprehensive book on the work of James Rosenquist available. My sister purchased it for me even before the show opened (which reminds me, I'd better see the show this week, as it's ending soon!), and it has fully satiated me as a source of Rosenquist's work. It's a very nicely bound, thick book which I find to be a very good deal in terms of the $65 (retail) price tag. The images ... Read More Rating: - Eye Candy for JR fansNo doubt about it, this is the best art book I own. As a HUGE fan of this artist, I may be slightly biased... but there are no doubts about the quality of this book - it is superbly bound and the quality of printing is just excellent. This book is definitely a good buy for any Rosenquist afficionado. Books on his paintings are hard to find so this one is undoubtebly a masterpiece. It is beautifully illustrated and excellently documented. There are not really any faults with this book. There are plenty ... Read More 
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