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...idea that led to alibi tapes came to Leisure Data President Steve Lichtenstein when he saw the movie The Owl and the Pussycat. "George Segal had this tape of a barking dog," he remembers, "and I suddenly saw the possibilities. The whole country is paranoid, especially city apartment dwellers. So I got an attack dog and taped him trying to chew me up. It began selling 1,000 copies a week all over the country, just so people could switch it on when the doorbell rang." Soon Lichtenstein's out-of-work friends asked him to tape a selection...
Today Tyler has more overtures from artists than he can handle, and his reluctance to produce anything but ambitious prints and multiples (Lichtenstein's 4-ft. bronze relief, Peace Through Chemistry, was published at $5,000) by "name" artists has given rise to predictable criticism. Tyler's argument is that, without subsidy, only assured sales will underwrite the immense cost of the equipment needed to develop the print medium-and he has a point. (June Wayne of Tamarind has the same argument: "The more the artist knows about lithography, the more it costs to make a print...
From the worn-out loafers to the signatures of his friends, the show offers an unusually personal view of an artist. Dine never really belonged to Pop art, though he has often been identified with it. He rode the same swift wave to success as Oldenburg, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Wesselmann, shared their conviction that the vocabulary of abstract expressionism was all but exhausted, and gave the object a primary place in his painting. But where Pop's lifeblood was popular imagery, Dine used objects that had figured in his own experience. Where Pop was social, analytical, sometimes bitterly satirical...
...Plastic pies, soup cans and comic-strip images by Warhol, Rosenquist, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg crop up in a show at Sidney Janis' Manhattan gallery and pop art arrives...
Artists Stanley Landsman and Roy Lichtenstein are also devotees of the period. Landsman collects slender "green-ies," a kind of metal figurine usually portraying a modish nymphet in an affected pose, which were popular as a decoration atop the family radio console. In his current show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, Lichtenstein displays a series of what he calls "modern sculptures," whose source he proudly admits is his own extensive library of Art Deco. Done in sleek brass, they look as if they should be holding back the crowds at Radio City Music Hall. Another indication...