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Roy Lichtenstein’s Love Affair with Chinese Landscape
Posted on August 3, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks When we’re asked to envision pop art, we tend to think of an art form that draws its objects and ideas from commercial culture: advertising, celebrity, mass production, […] -
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Capturing Harlem: The Street Photography of Dawoud Bey
Posted on July 27, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks The photographer Dawoud Bey, born in 1953, is probably best known for his large-scale color photographs of marginalized groups in contemporary America, and his community-focused and collaborative approach to his […] -
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The Making of John Baldessari’s Cremation Project
Posted on July 24, 2012As promised, we give you a fascinating guest post by John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné editors Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean, on pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari’s most infamous project: the systematic […] -
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In Commemoration of Lucian Freud
Posted on July 20, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Painter Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, died on this day one year ago, and it is on this anniversary that we reflect on the English artist’s extraordinary […]