Since the late 1950s, James Rosenquist has created an exceptional and consistently intriguing body of work. A leader of the American Pop art movement in the late 1960s, along with such contemporaries as Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg, and Andy Warhol, Rosenquist drew on the popular iconography of advertising and mass media to conjure a sense of contemporary life and the political tenor of the times. Born and raised in the Midwest and working in New York and Florida, he has developed a distinctly American voice—yet his work comments on popular culture and institutions from a continually evolving global perspective. From his early days as a billboard painter to his recent masterful use of abstract painting techniques, Rosenquist has maintained a passion for viscosity, color, line, and shape that continues to dazzle viewers and influence younger generations.

Published on the occasion of a comprehensive retrospective organized by Walter Hopps and Sarah Bancroft, this monograph is a definitive investigation of Rosenquist’s more than forty-year career in painting and sculpture, source collage, drawings, and graphics and multiples, from his earliest works to the present. Lavishly illustrated, the book features nearly three hundred of the artist’s most significant works, including several that have never been published and a broad selection of source collages. The essay by Hopps provides an overview of Rosenquist’s career, and those by Julia Blaut and Ruth E. Fine reveal his working processes in collage and printmaking respectively. Texts by Chris Balsiger, Bancroft, Eugene E. Epstein, and Michelle Harewood explore selected themes recurring in his work. An extensive chronology, including many newly published photographs, examines the artist’s life and career. Completing the publication are an exhibition history and a selected bibliography, which document the prolific activity of this major figure in contemporary American art.

271 plates and 182 figures, 444 pages. 11 3/4" w x 10" h.