Word: lichtensteiners
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...found the door unlocked but the lights were off and rows and rows of video games were unplugged," says Jesse G. Lichtenstein '98, who is among a handful of curious first-years to have stuck their head into the room. "It was dusty. It wasn't an inviting place to be, so I left...
There are two reasons behind the faculty's desire to avoid survey teaching. One is that a professor who spends all of his or her time researching a specific field does not necessarily feel qualified to teach a class which deals with art from prehistoric cave drawings to Lichtenstein...
...Lichtenstein is already a historical pop figure...
Instead he turned to incongruous subjects that didn't fit his achieved style: huge versions of Abstract Expressionist brushstrokes, perversely rendered in flat color and Benday dots; or, most successfully, mirrors. The Mirror paintings of 1969-72 remain entrancing because of all Lichtenstein's later work, they are the only ones in which his now cleaned-up techniques allowed for a degree of mystery and ambiguity: they are perfect and icy, and reflect nothing but themselves -- a proleptic comment on his own future work...
...Fernand Leger, Carlo Carra, Max Beckmann and so on. Then kitsch Modernism, as imagined by cartoonists. The trouble with these versions of Modernist classics 'n' clinkers is their sameness. After a while, it isn't very interesting to be shown that just about anything can be turned into a Lichtenstein, congealed in his cryogenic style. There's none of the engaged imagination, the sense of a transforming mind at work, that one gets in, say, Miro's wild versions of a 17th century Dutch interior, down the road at the Museum of Modern Art. Lichtenstein's are clever and highly...