Robert Indiana
Subtitle: Figures of Speech
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780300079579
Subjects: Individual artists; Pop art; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; Individual Artist; Individual Painters - 20th Century; Art & Art Instruction; Art; USA; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art / Individual Artist; 1928-; Art, American; Beeldende kunsten; Criticism and interpretation; Indiana, Robert,; United States; gtt
Description: "This book is the first in-depth analysis of Indiana's early career, from his maturation as an artist in the late 1950s, through the early 1970s, the peak of the proliferation of LOVE. Ryan shows how Indiana's oeuvre throughout this period is involved with the rhetoric of the American dream and shaped by the artist's intense engagement with American literature and poetry.

The author argues that Indiana's strident visual language emerges from his tendency to recast his life in story and verse, a fact that unlocks complex and secret tissues of figurative meaning within the deceptively simple canvases. By illuminating the enigmas in Indiana's word and image combinations, she helps to explain the longevity of LOVE and its influence on a later generation of artists."--BOOK JACKET.