Diane Waldman - Roy Lichtenstein - 1971

celebrated monograph Roy Lichtenstein, written by the famous critic and curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Diane Waldman, and published in Italy by Gabriele Mazzotta Editore in 1971. It is the first, historic organic monograph ever dedicated to the painterly work of the master of American Pop Art, conceived and structured with the close collaboration of the artist himself

Author: Diane Waldman. Artist treated: Roy Lichtenstein (New York, 1923 – New York, 1997), a cornerstone of global Pop Art.
Publication year: 1971 (printed internationally in parallel with the English edition by Thames & Hudson).
Number of pages: 248 total pages.
Illustrative apparatus: Exceptionally substantial, it contains 183 reproductions of works (including no fewer than 85 spectacular color plates inserted or bound at text level), offering an impeccably philological overview of the artist’s production from his early days to the end of the sixties.
Publisher: Gabriele Mazzotta Editore (Milan

The volume represents an absolute milestone for the historicization of Pop Art. Through a monumental critical essay and an extensive exclusive interview conducted by Diane Waldman directly in the artist’s studio, the book analyzes the visual revolution carried out by Lichtenstein. It examines his methodical process of deconstruction and re-writing of commercial images: from the famous appropriation of the strips of adventure and romance comics to the finto-typographic technique of Ben-Day dots. The text follows a rigorous chronological order that traces the masterpieces of the sixties (such as the iconic series of teary girls or the explorations of war), also analyzing his lesser-known but fundamental ceramic and metal sculpture works and the Pop reinterpretations of the history of modern art (from Cubism to Surrealism).