Hardest Kind of Archetype: Reflections on Roy Lichetenstein - Hardcover

Foster, Hal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1906270384 ISBN 13: 9781906270384

Publisher: National Galleries of Scotland, 2011

Synopsis

Established following the 125th anniversary of the Chair of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh and named after the painter Sir John Watson Gordon, the Watson Gordon Lectures Typify the long-standing positive collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and the National Galleries of Scotland: two partners in the Visual Arts Research Institute in Edinburgh. The fifth lecture was given by Hal Foster of Princeton University. Professor Foster is an acknowledged expert on modernist art and architecture, and has a particular fascination with Pop art. His wide-ranging lecture on Roy Lichtenstein is a gripping engagement with the multiple aspects of the artist's work: the conjunctions of art and technology, the satirical playing with previous modernist styles, and the sinister background of the military-industrial complex. Also available in the series: Roger Fry's Journal: From the Primitives to the Post-Impressionists: Watson Gordon Lecture 2006 9781906270117 Sound, Silence, and Modernity in Dutch Pictures of Manners: Watson Gordon Lecture 2007 9781906270254 Picasso's 'Toys for Adults': Cubism as Surrealism: Watson Gordon Lecture 2008 9781906270261

About this title

About the Author

Hal Foster (1892-1982) created Prince Valiant in 1937. Though remaining involved with the strip until his death in 1982, Foster handed the bulk of the scripting and art chores over to his longtime assistant, John Cullen Murphy, in 1971.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Galleries of Scotland
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906270384
• ISBN 13: 9781906270384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48