Larry Rivers - Hardcover

Hunter, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847810941 ISBN 13: 9780847810949

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1989

Synopsis

Book by Hunter, Sam

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Rivers's public persona as an artist combines that of bohemian outsider, sensualist and entertainer. His best-known images of the 1960s--Dutch Masters cigars, French money, cigarette packs--became Pop icons. Eschewing abstraction, he came up with startling, disquieting figures, such as his obese, sagging mother-in-law depicted in the nude with brutal honesty ( Double Portrait of Berdie ). Yet there is more to Rivers than the hipster, as this lavishly illustrated monograph by a former Princeton art historian shows. Hunter makes a case for Rivers as a social realist: witness his powerful construction piece Ghetto Stoop or recent works that include searching portraits of Primo Levi, Leonard Bernstein and New York's ex-mayor Ed Koch. In History of Matzoh , a collage-like chronicle of the Jewish people, Rivers (born Yizroch Grossberg in 1923 in the Bronx) explores his Jewish roots. His latest series of 3-D paintings encompasses dancers, movie stars, Chinese and surrealist motifs.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0847810941
• ISBN 13: 9780847810949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358