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Book Launch—Becoming Roy Lichtenstein: The Path to Pop

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Iconic pop artist Roy Lichtenstein redefined American art in the 1960s. Join us for the launch of Becoming Roy Lichtenstein: The Path to Pop, with author Avis Berman. Berman draws on hundreds of interviews with the artist’s friends, relatives, students, and colleagues, as well as extensive archival research. She takes us through Lichtenstein’s earliest influences and the struggle to escape the shadow of abstract expressionism and find his own style. The book culminates with the fateful summer of 1961 when pop art was born. 

A book signing follows in the East Building Shop.  

Avis Berman is an independent writer and art historian. She has written on painting, sculpture, photography, design, and museum history. She is the author of Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art; James McNeill Whistler; Edward Hopper’s New York; and Roy Lichtenstein: The Impossible Collection. Berman is also an oral historian who has interviewed over 500 artists, curators, critics, dealers, collectors, and other art world figures. In 2001, she helped establish the oral history program of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. And in 2016, she began working on similar projects for the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Dedalus Foundation. 

The following generous donors made gifts in honor of Robert E. Meyerhoff to support the Robert E. Meyerhoff Lecture and Program Series Endowment: Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Marc Andreessen, Frederick W. and Candace K. Beinecke and The Prospect Hill Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Alma Gildenhorn, Joan and David Maxwell, Mr. Raj K. Nooyi and Ms. Indra K. Nooyi, Emily and Mitchell Rales, Sharon Percy Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller IV, David M. Rubenstein, Denise Saul and The Honorable Andrew M. Saul, and Darren Walker. 

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