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What Is Art? Roy Lichtenstein, 39, is best known for blown-up comic strips full of POWS, BLAMS, and unfinished quotes in big balloons. He says that such things are not done so easily as they seem. Though he uses real comic strips as models, he does not copy them exactly; there is enough change so that he can claim to impose his own order on them. This, he says, makes the viewer "wonder what the original was. It brings out the question, 'What is art?' " Indeed it does...
...Gottlieb, Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. Last week Janis was the cause of a good deal of speculation with his big new show of "pop art." Instead of the masters of abstractionism, he has gooey cakes of painted plaster by Claes Oldenburg, blown-up comic strips by Roy Lichtenstein, rearranged billboards by James Rosenquist, portraits of cans of soup by Andy Warhol. Janis has apparently spotted a new bandwagon-but he did not discover...
Except for a few minor injuries, the team is in good physical condition for today's game. Left half back Joe Paulac and fullback Dick St. Inge are the only backs disabled, but they might see some action. Center Marty Zimmerman and tackles Dan Goodnow and Mike Lichtenstein are hurt, but they may play today...
...interior line men protecting Beasley are: tackles, Lichtenstein and Bill Zalinski; guards. Whit Lee and Bob Barrett; and center, Jim Driscoll...
...LICHTENSTEIN, 38, of Highland Park, N.J., started his fine-arts career painting semi-abstract versions of Remington's cowboys and Indians, and later began to conceal comic-strip cartoon characters inside abstract-expressionist paintings. "This led me to wonder what it would be like if I made a cartoon that looked like a cartoon." In addition to cartoons-on-canvas, he began painting household objects-trash cans, washing machines, light cords-in the same flat technique. "I try to use what is a cliche -a powerful cliché-and put it into organized form," he says. By presenting common...