Like his fellow Pop painters Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos (born 1935) derives the motifs for his work from mass media and advertising. In bold and immediately recognizable canvases, he unites consumer goods with idealized pin-up girls modeled after magazine images dating from the 1950s and 1960s. Ramos immortalizes these models' lascivious poses by entwining them with the featured products in what he calls "commercial pin-ups." This monograph illustrates and discusses many of these works, but also provides insight into the artist's multifaceted oeuvre by presenting more than 100 works, from his first portraits of people, comic heroes and heroines, and his prominent pin-up girls, to his latest works from the Galatea series. Celebrating the artist's 75th birthday, this catalogue accompanies a major European retrospective, the first to unite Ramos' drawings, paintings and sculptures.

Mel Ramos: 50 Years of Pop Art

HONNEF, KLAUS

Letze, Otto

Schreiber, Daniel

Reference

Hatje Cantz

Duane Hanson - More than Reality. Deutsche Ausgabe.

Buchsteiner, Thomas

Hatje Cantz Verlag

<p>Wrinkles, facial hair, varicose veins, and fingernail dirt are hardly the bodily stuff of your average figurative sculpture, be it a Praxiteles or a Rodin. But Duane Hanson was never after the ideal figure, merely the familiar one, one so recognizable it is often mistaken for the flesh-and-blood waitress, house painter or cop it so vividly, eerily depicts in polyester resin. Clothed in the most exacting of detail, down to their hidden underpants, Hanson's sculptures compell an endless, prying looking into the folds and moods of his subjects. More Than Reality, the first catalogue raisonne of his sculptures, reveals that Hanson's objective was never blatant voyeurism but the opening of a view onto those things we prefer to overlook: the drabness of everyday life, the dullness of common states of mind, the inevitability of mortality.</p>

Duane Hanson: More Than Reality

Arts & Photography

Hartley, Keith

Hanson, Duane

Matimo, Luzia

History & Criticism

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Examining every phase of Tom Wesselmann's development and output, this retrospective casts new light on their origins and interrelationship. A fresh look at a leading figure in the vanguard of American Pop Art.

Tom Wesselmann

Cantz

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