Pop Art Jim Dine Alchemy Images 1st Ed Neo-Dada Neo-Expressionism HCDJ Modern HC
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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Jim Dine: The Alchemy of Images by Livingstone, Marco with commentary by Jim Dine Published by The Monacelli Press, New York, 1998. First Edition, printed & bound in Japan. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Black cloth over heavy boards, debossed blindstamped titling to front board, gilt debossed titling to spine. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Large 4to, lavishly illustrated with color reproductions, 352 pages. In the transgressive landscape of late-1950s New York Jim Dine emerged as a provocateur whose "Happenings" would help birth both Performance Art and Pop Art. Born in Cincinnati in 1935, Dine brought the tactile memory of his grandfather's hardware store to the rarified world of Manhattan galleries, transforming ordinary tools, bathrobes, and hearts into iconic symbols that would define his six-decade career. Marco Livingstone, the distinguished London-based art writer and curator known for his scholarship on postwar painting and Pop Art, presents the definitive survey of an artist whose work defies easy categorization, bridging Neo-Dada's irreverence with Abstract Expressionist gesture and Pop Art's everyday iconography. This comprehensive monograph traces Dine's evolution from his early "Happenings" collaborations with Claes Oldenburg and Red Grooms to his mature mastery of painting, sculpture, printmaking, and poetry. Livingstone reveals how Dine's childhood expe
- Publisher: Monacelli Press, Incorporated
- Year: 1998
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 1885254792
- Condition: Very Good
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