Sunday, October 21, 2012

City Paper's review of Lichtenstein exhibit

"Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective" At the National Gallery of Art to Jan. 13; Roy Lichtenstein's comic-book Pop art gave him modernist cred, but he was a painter's painter, too.
By Jeffry Cudlin • October 19, 2012
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/43354/roy-lichtenstein-a-retrospective-reviewed-roy-lichtenstein-helped-establish-pop/

Cudlin wraps up his review talking about comics, "One sour note: The names of the comics artists that Lichtenstein borrowed from in the mid-'60s—people like Tony Abruzzo, Irv Novick, and Jack Kirby—are not mentioned in the show's wall text..." and ComicsDC readers should check out his conclusions.

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