Roy Lichtenstein is encountered in books through exhibition catalogues, interviews, writings and heavily illustrated monographs about his Pop Art practice. These publications concentrate on the comic-strip enlargements, Ben-Day dots, hard outlines and borrowed commercial imagery of works such as Whaam!, Drowning Girl and the Brushstrokes series, while later surveys also cover landscapes, interiors, sculpture and his reworking of earlier art. Collections of interviews and statements are useful for readers interested in how Lichtenstein discussed mechanical reproduction, parody, composition and the uneasy boundary between fine art and mass-produced images. The books are primarily visual and analytical rather than biographical narratives. They fit Pop Art, twentieth-century American art, comics and art, and artist interviews, with natural links to books on Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns and post-war visual culture. Read more Less
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