Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

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BOOKImage Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

Michael Lobel

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15487

Roy Lichtenstein’s distinctive paintings of the early 1960s are synonymous with the Pop art movement. These bold, oversized images inspired by newspaper advertisements and comic book scenes have been taken as reflecting the artist’s fascination with the links between art and popular culture. In this book, Michael Lobel challenges this circumscribed view of Lichtenstein’s work, offering a set of compelling new interpretations that reveal the artist’s confrontation with a far wider range of issues. Lichtenstein’s art is fundamentally engaged with a set of concerns central to art making in the postwar period: the relation between vision and technology, the possibility of articulating artistic identity, and the effect of mechanical reproduction on the work of art. Lichtenstein’s project, Lobel argues, is structured by the tension between painting understood as a fully expressive, humanistic gesture and, conversely, as the product of a purely mechanical act.

Image Duplicator makes available for the first time an array of archival materials about Lichtenstein and his work, including photographs of the artist and many newly discovered sources for his imagery in the comics and advertisements of the early 1960s. It also provides new information on the context of the artist’s Pop paintings in relation to contemporary developments in advertising culture, mechanical reproduction, and visual technologies. Examining the artist’s work from fresh perspectives, the author not only offers a comprehensive analysis of Lichtenstein’s early Pop paintings but also provides new insight into the issues that shaped the Pop art movement, artistic practices in the 1960s, and the historical relation between modern art and popular culture.

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date March 2002 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300087628

EISBN 9780300232455

Illustrations 70 b/w + 40 color illus.

Print Status out of print

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Google Books

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List of illustrations

Image Duplicator
Washington Crossing the Delaware I
Mickey Mouse I
Untitled
Unidentified comic book panel, source for Image Duplicator
Panel from X-Men no. 1
Photograph documenting the artist's working process
Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?, first page
Roy Lichtenstein and Dorothy Herzka dressed for Halloween as Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick
Self-Portrait
Look Mickey
Donald Duck
Golf Ball
Kitchen Range
Washing Machine
Tire
Green Coca-Cola Bottles
Page from Roy Lichtenstein's source notebooks, detail
Spray
Airplane
The Explorer
Development of the Prudential Life Insurance company logo
Large Spool
Ball of Twine
Wimpy (Tweet), detail
Composition I
Cover, Roy Lichtenstein exhibition catalogue
Popeye
Keds
Keds, detail
Woman with Flowered Hat
Woman with Flowered Hat
Composition in Black and White
Mail Order Foot
Keds
Sears, Roebuck & Company advertisement, detail
George Washington
Portrait of Ivan Karp
Portrait of Allan Kaprow
Self-Portrait
Page from Roy Lichtenstein's source notebooks, detail
I Can See the Whole Room and There's Nobody in It
Panel from Steve Roper
Untitled illustration
Cross section of the flash lab, Ohio State University
Students in the flash lab, Ohio State University
Blépharospasme Hystérique
Untitled illustration
Untitled illustration
Live Ammo (Take Cover!)
Magnifying Glass
Wimpy (Tweet)
Torpedo. . . Los!
Panel from Battle of the Ghost Ships!
CRAK!
Panel from The Town That Wouldn't Die!
Crying Girl
Girl with Tear III
Okay, Hot-Shot
Jet Pilot
Bratatat!
Diagram of the N-3A Optical Sight
Military aircraft cockpit interior with reflector gun sight at center
Whaam!, detail
Panel from the cover of All American Men of War no. 89
Like New
Bread in Bag
Before and After 4
Illustration from Erle Loran, Pop Artists or Copy Cats?
Page from Erle Loran
Step-On Can with Leg
Poster
Sponge
Sinking Sun
Emeralds
Panel from Buck Rogers
Brattata
Panel from Aces Wild!
Masterpiece
Mad Scientist
Cold Shoulder
Panel from Web of Heartbreak
Vicki
Girl in Mirror
Good Morning . . . Darling!
Blonde Waiting
Woman Before an Aquarium
The Engagement Ring
Drowning Girl
Frightened Girl
Happy Tears
Oh, Jeff . . . I Love You, Too. . . But . . .
In the Car
In the Car, preliminary version
Panel from Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Violin
Man with Folded Arms
Diagram from Cézanne's Composition
Portrait of Madame Cézanne
Little Big Painting
Roy Lichtenstein, New York
Brushstrokes
Yellow and Green Brushstrokes
Cover of Strange Suspense Stories no. 72
Panel from The Painting
Final panel from The Painting

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Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.001

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Acknowledgments

Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.002

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Introduction

Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

~“WHAT? WHY DID YOU ASK THAT? WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MY IMAGE DUPLICATOR?” These lines of text, aggressive and accusatory, almost fill the top half of a 1963 canvas by Roy Lichtenstein (fig. 1). With its thick black outlines, vibrant palette of primary colors, and regularized dot patterns,...

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-15

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.003

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Chapter subject tags:Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923–1977Pop artComic books, strips, etc., in artNewspapers in art

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1. The Emergence of Pop Art

Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

~To more fully understand Lichtenstein’s practice we must attend to the critical apparatus that has developed over the years to describe his work. Critics have often returned to a common set of themes to frame the artist’s project, as evidenced in this 1989 account by Carter Ratcliff:

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-39

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15491

Chapter subject tags:Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923–1977Pop artComic books, strips, etc., in artDisney characters

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2. Trademark Lichtenstein

Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

~If Lichtenstein set out, in the early 1960s, to depict appropriated imagery using the facture of the machine, how would he attach his name to it? What are the historical possibilities and limits of articulating an identity as an artist when...

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.41-73

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15492

Chapter subject tags:Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923–1977Pop artNewspapers in artComic books, strips, etc., in artBrand name products in art

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3. Technology Envisioned: Lichtenstein’s Monocularity

Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

~In the summer of 1961, soon after beginning his experimentation with Pop, Lichtenstein executed a large canvas entitled I Can See the Whole Room!. . . And There’s Nobody In It! (fig. 42). In the...

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.75-103

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15493

Chapter subject tags:Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923–1977Pop artPhotography in artComic books, strips, etc., in art

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4. The Image Duplicators

Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

~The significance of monocularity to Lichtenstein’s project was not limited to its engagement with theoretical problems relating to the mechanical augmentation of vision. In fact, its imaging by the artist was not even limited to its embodiment by human figures. This...

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.105-125

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.007

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Chapter subject tags:Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923–1977Pop artRepetition (Aesthetics)Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001Comic books, strips, etc., in art

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5. Engendering Difference

Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

~Lichtenstein’s 1962 canvas Masterpiece (fig. 79) is set in the interior of a painter’s studio. To the right, a male figure—presumably an artist, garbed in black turtleneck—is shown in...

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.127-157

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15495

Chapter subject tags:Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923–1977Pop artCézanne, Paul, 1839-1906Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954Heroines in art

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Conclusion

Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

~Lichtenstein faced the machine’s threat to artistic practice by incorporating elements of the mechanical into his painterly idiom. His work preserved a traditional notion of the studio as a site of creative agency and aesthetic enclosure into which elements from industrial and consumer culture were brought in order to be transformed into fine art. His...

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.159-168

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15496

Chapter subject tags:Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923–1977Pop artComic books, strips, etc., in artBaker, Richard Brown

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Bibliography

Michael Lobel

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art

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Michael Lobel

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00065.010

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