Title: Mel Ramos
First published: 1975
Description: At the beginning of the 1960s, Mel Ramos devoted himself to the central theme in his oeuvre, and developed the visual vocabulary that is so very characteristic for him: naked women adorning oversize advertising articles populate his colorful, two-dimensional oil paintings. Mel Ramos thus works with double entendre, since his works are formulations of an erotic fantasy that represents a fundamental pattern of marketing strategies in advertising. This publication records Mel Ramos's entire painterly oeuvre, from the first works in the 1950s until today, hence demonstrating his enduring position in Pop Art.
Subjects: Painters, Interviews, Exhibitions, Art, Individual Artist, Art & Art Instruction, Pinup art, Women in art, Art criticism, Art, american, Drawing, american, Art, modern, 20th century, exhibitions, Art, modern, 21st century, exhibitions, Artists, Art, modern, 20th century, history, Catalogues raisonnés, Female nude in art, American Drawing, American Painting, Pop art, Catalogs, Zeichnung, Criticism and interpretation
Places: United States
People: Mel Ramos
LC classification: ND237.R125