Word: lichtenstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walk-in Hoppers," sculptural equivalents to the world of that American master, with its nocturnal bars and waiting figures. Segal's tableaux have a flavor of the '30s-overlaid, now and then, with a sharp erotic curiosity. Instead of the irony of a '60s Warhol or Lichtenstein, one is treated to an unremitting earnestness, a moral concern with the voids between people and the circumspectness of their gestures. It is a somber sight, this "populist art," as one of Segal's admirers dubbed it; and it gives a special density to the retrospective of 100 works...
BACK in the mid-sixties pop art made its debut on the American scene; all the most ludicrous examples of mass urban culture shined as serious artworks. Andy Warhol got rich off his Campbell soup cans, George Segal for his over-all plaster casts of live human beings, Roy Lichtenstein for his comic strip tableaux...
...Like a package-tour guide, he hits the peaks and some of the troughs. The visual impact of the more than 350 color plates is vigorous. But the pace of the survey is so brisk that the reader may find himself thinking, "If this is Thursday, it must be Lichtenstein...
Natalie G. Lichtenstein '75, a second-year Law student, director-at-large; Ellen Bower Feingold '50, Eleanor Blackall Read '39, and Alice Maginnis Walsh '30, members of the nominating committee, were also elected...
...exhibit of Roy Lichtenstein Prints at the Fogg closes Sunday. Also there's a great exhibit of examples from the Museum's fine collection of 17th century Dutch drawings and paintings on the second floor--the exhibit's connected with Seymour Slive's Fine Arts 166, is really good, and is going down on Halloween...