Roy Lichtenstein

Starring:Roy Lichtenstein
Director: Chris Hunt
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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The most remarkable thing about this 49-minute interview is the pop artist's candor in describing his process, both his search for subjects and his painting techniques. His openness makes this video a treat for the Lichtenstein aficionado and a valuable lesson for any art student. In keeping with his lifelong investigation of what constitutes art, the controversial painter willingly discusses criticism suggesting his work does not meet the criteria. Meanwhile a cartoonist whose work he copied weighs in on Lichtenstein, as well as a gallery owner and museum curator. The program looks at the pop art movement for context and takes viewers through each of Lichtenstein's stages from his large-dot reproductions of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse to his cartoon versions of Picasso through to his work of and for the New York City subway system. Whether or not one views him as a serious artist, it's clear that this painter has spent a lifetime being serious about art. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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A rare interview with the late, influential American artist Roy Lichtenstein, one of Pop Art's pioneers, highlight this fascinating profile. Some 30 years after his ground-breaking paintings first appeared--both shocking and delighting--the same works fetch record prices. But Lichtenstein's reputation did not depend on his past, as he painted steadily throughout the '70s, '80s and '90s until his death in 1997. The breadth and depth of his work has confirmed his position as one of the world's foremost artists and this program examines Lichtenstein's long and unique career.

Who Gets to Call It Art?
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Pop art

The life and legend of Henry Geldzahler and the Pop Art movement

An Important Film

Influence and Art Culture

Who Gets to Call It Art?
Starring: Jonas Mekas , Calvin Tompkins , Francesco Clemente , Henry Geldzahler , and James Rosenquist
Director: Peter Rosen
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures / Umvd
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Release Date: 2006-05-23

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Who Gets to Call it Art? is a wild ride through the fascinating 1960s New York art world, seen through the eyes of first "contemporary art" curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry Geldzahler. Never-before-seen footage of artists including Andy Warhol, Jasper Jones and Roy Lichtenstein as well as exclusive interviews with artists Frank Stella, David Hockney, and James Rosenquist provide a vibrant and entertaining look at ten amazing years when American artists challenged everything and forever changed the world of art.

Customer Reviews:

Pop art .......2007-04-10

I've purchased this DVD to find out what's behind pop art who are its main protagonists and indeed who gets to call it art? The feature is made up by a series of interviews with prominent artists from the 50s and 60s who weren't so well known back then. In fact is a film about Henry Geldzahler who went to the art school with Andy Warhol and became curator at Met during the 60s, Henry introduced artists like Larry Poons, Mark Di Suvero, Andy Warhol, etc to the general public thus enlarging and challenging the established view of what's art. The movie also answered my question - pop art social effect is simply to reconcile us to a world of commodities...banalities and vulgarities which is to say in effect indistinguishable from advertising art.

The life and legend of Henry Geldzahler and the Pop Art movement.......2007-04-02

Henry Geldzahler came from a well-to-do family and always wanted to be a curator. After interning at the Whitney at 15 he fell in love with modern art. He got a degree from Yale and after a couple of years of doctoral studies at Harvard he accepted a position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was hardly known for its support of the latest directions in art.

This movie is about Geldzahler and what he did to support the pop art movement that included artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and many others. The story is told with tapes and films of Geldzahler, as well as period and contemporary interviews with the artists concerned (whether supportive or contrary to the movement).

The culmination of the film is the famous and hugely controversial show Geldzahler put on in 1970 at the Metropolitan. "New York Painting 1940-1970". It was a blockbuster and still resonates to this day. I loved the comment about how he selected what to put in the show (because no matter how large an exhibition, so much had to be left out). Geldzahler said that he picked those works that he had seen and than left him wanting to see it again. Whatever you think about the "seriousness" or "worth" of the art, much of it is certainly beautiful and all of it is full of cheer, optimism, fun, and some downright silliness. Isn't that refreshing from being dour all the time?

Henry Geldzahler died far too young at 59 in 1994. We even get to see inside his home and the beautiful objects with which he had surrounded himself. They are stunning.

This is a fine short film to get some background about this interesting and influential patron on modern art and the artists who did all that work. It is quite charmingly done and never gets sidetracked in the side arguments.

Recommended.

An Important Film .......2006-12-26

I teach contemporary art. This film utilizes clips and quotes from other films about highly significant artists working from the late 50s forward. It is time for the general public to see Henry Geldzahler as the catalyst and creative coordinator for this diverse group. . .a must have for understanding the evolution of art since the 1960s.

Influence and Art Culture.......2006-09-29

A fascination with influence may draw you to this documentary of art appreciation. Henry Geldzahler was the first contemporary art curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his "New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970" exhibit is said to be the largest exhibit of modern art by living artists at the Met.

Through this journey into the life of Henry Geldzahler we discover the depths of the friendship between Henry and Andy Warhol and how at the height of their friendship they talked on the phone daily. It seemed they supported each other's artistic visions.

Henry Geldzahler loved to be photographed, was a natural in front of a camera and also loved to sit for portraits. David Hockney's painting of Henry sitting on a couch is shown in reality and then as the painting. These types of contrasts show reality vs. the artist's vision and perhaps explain "in a subtle way" how Henry's presence changed the world of art.

Since I had just arrived in the world in the 60s, this is all pretty much new to me and it helps to explain the rise of contemporary art in a positive way. It is likely that you will recognize very few artists featured if you are under 40 and not an art student, but this doesn't detract from the human-interest story.

Artists interviewed include: Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, David Hockney, John Chamberlain, Francesco Clemente, Mark di Suvero, Ellsworth Kelly, Larry Poons and James Rosenquist. This gives a fascinating inside view of what was happening in the art world during the 60s.

After viewing this DVD, you can't help but recognize the influence of the artists featured while visiting today's art museums.

~The Rebecca Review

The Life & Times of Andy Warhol - Superstar

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Not perfect, but damn good!
A Very Brief Look At Andy
Packed and Illuminating
The King is Dead, Long Live The King
A Must for any Warhol Fan.

The Life & Times of Andy Warhol - Superstar
Starring: Liza Minnelli , Henry Geldzahler , Fritzie Miller , Sylvia Miles , and Jim Bakker
Director: Chuck Workman
Manufacturer: Shout Factory Theatr
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Release Date: 2003-05-27

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This documentary by Academy Award winner Chuck Workman does a fine job of capturing the life and legend of Andy Warhol. News coverage of his untimely death, as seen on television stations in his hometown of Pittsburgh, sets the stage for interviews with the artist's brother and cousins, who show off vintage family photos and talk wistfully of Andy's early life as Andrew Warhola. People who worked with him throughout his career as commercial artist, pop art superstar, underground filmmaker, and celebrity about town appear and provide interviews that are honest, insightful, and frequently hilarious. In a wry aside, Campbell's Soup executives comment on Warhol's famous paintings of the soup cans, which puzzled everyone but came to be regarded as art. The film is brilliantly put together so that the atmosphere of Warhol's life is deftly captured. Though he relentlessly threw himself into the public spotlight (he's even seen appearing in an episode of The Love Boat), Warhol was always something of a mystery. Was he a great artist or a great con man? People who saw him on a daily basis talk about how they were both fascinated and baffled by him. This is an intelligent and witty look at Warhol's unlikely life. The DVD features a "director's commentary" soundtrack that can be turned on to hear Workman speak about some of the material in the film. --Robert J. McNamara

Customer Reviews:

Not perfect, but damn good!.......2006-09-24

I just bought this DVD five days ago and I've watched it 12 times. I just can't stop looking at Warhol. I wish this DVD were longer and had more shots of "THE MAN", but overall, it represented him as I remember him from my youth in the sixties. I also liked the interviews with the people that made the Facatory what it was. I was left feeling that I wanted more; more pictures, more narative, more interviews, just more of everything.
I would buy it again, but I really do feel the need to acuire more of the same type of thing when and where I can!

A Very Brief Look At Andy.......2006-08-20

I found the DVD enlightening even though it did not provide an indepth look at this very complex man. Missing were some very important details of his early life. Things which were important to shaping his career. Also there was not enough emphasis on the Factory people. I did appreciate the fact that Gerard Malanga was a producer and did a great deal of narration.

Packed and Illuminating.......2006-05-15

Follows Warhol's career chronologically, with an opportunity to meet family members, art dealers, Factory regulars (including Gerard, Holly, and Candy) and celebrities.

Warhol as superstar was the product of a lot of smarts and effort. He went basically from
a) commercial success (e.g. drawing shoes for advertizers)
b) popular success as a Pop painter, which might not have amounted to much if limited to that.
c) widened popular success via silkscreening
d) broadened his recognition via the underground movies
e) provided recognition of each of his superstars, who fame brought further recognition to Warhol
f) tied himself further to celebrities via "Interview" magazine and his custom silkscreens of them
g) after being shot (his own celebrity having already been established by then) mainly partied with other celebrities (but also produced his diary as a way of calling attention to his time spent with celebrities)

and, following his success, we now live in a time when fame is meaningless yet compelling, when neither the famous nor the public seem to gain anything by it and yet cling to it all the more addictively. Once famous enough, how one became famous is inconsequential: this condition thanks to Andy.

After you have read, listened to and seen everything else about Warhol, this documentary will make the pieces fall into place ... but that they are pieces will be all the more apparent.

The King is Dead, Long Live The King.......2004-10-15

It is ironic that many of our most creative Artists are never truly appreciated until they are gone. The Superstar DVD affords us an interesting insight into the life and times of Mr. Warhol. I especially liked the Directors Commentary option where Mr. Workman speaks about the film. If you are into Andy Warhol, this is a nice remember when. That being said, I would be remiss if I did not mention a living Artist, who I would like to be so bold as to call the "Andy Warhol" of the new digital age. His name is Laurence Gartel. He is called the "Father of Digital Media" and to any Multi-media student, Photographer, or Artist, he is truly unique. He has a new DVD out entitled Trance, Dance and Other Living things which features thousands of his photo's and art in a surround sound multi-media format, the likes of which I have never seen. I read mediamaniacs review, and it was great. If you liked Mr. Warhol, you are going to love Gartel. I bought the DVD, and then emailed Mr. Gartel, who actually responded to my email (himself), and answered several questions. Imagine being able to communicate directly with a guy who is in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian. This is truly a digital age, and I think Gartel can become our Warhol of the new millenium with alittle support from all of us. I do not want to get to stuffie, but this fellow is truly and National Treasure, and the Arts really need to support him.

A Must for any Warhol Fan........2003-02-27

This video although along the same lines as the Portrait series on Warhol seems to take a more personal approach to this very unique man. I was pleased with the family interviews and looks into his life as a young man, it helps to reason why Warhol although very sociable was actually a shy and mysterious person. The film takes info on the person and gradually moves into his art, there are quite a few clips of Warhol being interviewed about his work which do nothing for the novice because he does not say much of anything but they do add to the mystique of the artist. I was pleased with the input of some of his "Posse", they seem to give a candid representation of their relationships with Warhol and along with video footage of the artist in action and in routine living help to put this video as a top documentary into the life of an artist. Warhol as many artists of the period seems to poke fun at himself and not take what he does very seriously although we know what he did was seriously important in history. I think regardless whether you like his art or not, he has to be one of the most influential & innovative artists ever.

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How to Draw a Bunny
Was his death a performance piece?
eccentricity and genius
Life (and Death?) As Art
Documentary about an Underappreciated Artist

How to Draw a Bunny
Starring: Roy Lichtenstein , Gerald Ayres , James Rosenquist , Judith Malina , and Ray Johnson (VIII)
Director: John W. Walter
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ASIN: B0004Z31M0
Release Date: 2004-10-19

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How to Draw a Bunny.......2007-06-26

This movie is just the thing that fits inside you and never goes away. I first heard of this movie at the Museum of Fine Arts. It was playing there and I missed it, but it looked interesting. So I ordered it on Netflix and then promptly forgot what it was about or why I ever wanted to see it. So I kept sliding it down on the list (trust, mistrust) until, finally, I forgot to manage my list and it came to the house. That can happen, as you know.
John Waters and Andrew Moore put together a film about the artist, Ray Johnson, that leaves you wondering which is better--Ray Johnson--or the movie? The answer is --both. Okay, Ray Johnson was, well, Ray Johnson. The movie is a Ray Johnson motico. On one level it plays as a retrospective of Ray's live and his art. On another level it plays out as a totally noir B detective movie. More like a noir detective documentary. (Remember Dragnet?) It's Dragnet in an exquisitly "Ray" way. Ray Johnson was not an outsider artist. He knew everyone in the arts, and everyone knew him. But in an important sense he was an outsider artist. He was outside of everything. Hilarious interviews with friends who tried to buy some of his art work. The negotiations over the sales became bigger than the art. And the art is stunning. Film footage of Ray at a suburban garden party-episodes and also on his "foot" period. He drew and collaged feet for a long time. Finally he rented a helicoper and dropped "foot-long" hot dogs over Long Island. What a fabulous movie this is.

Was his death a performance piece?.......2007-03-31

Ray Johnson was born in Detroit in 1927 and as an only child he was always focused on art and drawing. Rather than attend regular school, he attend Cass Tech and studied art. He want to an experimental college called Black Mountain where he was exposed to some of the leaders of the then avant garde. He headed to New York in 1948 and became a part of the central art scene there. He was admired by artists from many fields there and became friendly with many of them.

One of the very interesting things we learn in this film is that friendship is a very strange word when talking about Ray Johnson. Everyone who knew him cared about him and had affection for him. They all have stories about him. However, Johnson never let anyone, that is ANYONE, into who he really was. What that means is for you to decide.

He became a very fine and original collagist and even a performance artist. Some of the stuff seems quite pointless and silly. It probably is. Not everything works in art. However, the stuff that does is terrific.

Johnson never sold much and was difficult to work with. Not because he had a band temper, but because he had his own views of reality. A particularly nice story is a friend telling how he wanted to buy a collage he liked from Johnson who told him it was $2,000. The friend offered $1,500. Johnson said OK but that he would take it home and send it to him. When he got it from Johnson it had the entire lower right quarter of the collage removed ($500 worth).

The movie is itself a kind of collage and quite interesting. There is some footage of Johnson, many interviews with friends, and since Johnson's death is a mystery (probably a suicide as a performance piece) we also get an interview with the detective who looked into the death after the body was found floating in a river.

If you are interested in 20th century avant garde art and artists, you will likely find this film as interesting as I did. If you don't appreciate the stuff, you still might find this a doorway into the stuff. However, if artists drive you crazy you will probably not enjoy this at all because it is full of fascinating people you won't like.

eccentricity and genius.......2007-01-25

Pop artist, prankster, and provocateur extraordinaire, Ray Johnson (1928-1995) had many acquaintances, but to a person no one claimed to know who he really was. His life, his death from suicide, and his prolific work were a single, seamless performance act. This documentary interviews curators, his agent, collectors, the police that investigated his death, his first cousin, fellow artists like Christo, and even, appropriately, his mail carrier (Johnson mailed thousands of pieces of his "mail art" to people around the world). The same semantic range of words emerges from them all -- enigmatic, elusive, isolated, underground, and mysterious. In one "work" he dropped sixty foot long hot dogs from a helicopter. In another, we see him hopping around on one foot as he beats a cardboard box with a belt. "He kept so much of himself to himself," remarked one person. "No one ever seemed to know what he did, or what he thought he was doing," observed another. But upon his death a veritable treasure trove of Johnson's work surfaced--paintings, drawings and especially mixed media collages pasted on the cardboard inserts of laundried shirts (he once told a friend he did "chop art" and not "pop art"). The film, much of which is shot in black and white, begins and ends with consideration of his theatrical death on Friday, January 13th, 1995. His body was found floating under a bridge in Sag Harbor, New York, by buoy number 13. The night before Johnson had stayed in room #247 (= 13) of a motel. He was 67 (= 13). A few days later people discovered his house meticulously staged with transparent clues. Johnson was clearly an extraordinary and eccentric genius, once referred to in the The New York Times as the "most famous unknown artist." His works which spanned nearly 50 years are now exhibited in museums around the world.

Life (and Death?) As Art.......2005-12-24

A fascinating look inside the New York art scene and the predecessor class to Warhol. I confess that I knew absolutely nothing about this artist before watching this documentary, and yet I couldn't get enough of it. Truly a man who lived his life as art. And his death? That's the central guessing game of this film, and it makes for a captivating and vaguely haunting biopic.

Documentary about an Underappreciated Artist.......2005-11-07

The subject of this film is a lesser-known artist Ray Johnson, who was an extremely private person. While he knew everyone in the New York pop art scene, no one knew him very well at all.

Moreover, in the documentary, at least, he seldom seems to sell a work of art, yet all he does is create art. He became a constant presence in the New York art scene from the early 1950's till his suicide in 1995. He is credited with creating the first happenings when he displayed his collages on a city street. He began to concentrate on creating elaborate collages.

He is so shy about his art that even as his friends, maybe all his friends, get shows at well-known galleries and even at the Museum of Modern Art, he never allows MOMA's curators to judge whether to admit his works to the museum's collection. Instead, he mails his art to many friends, collectors and MOMA's library. The library, as is its custom, duly catalogs and keeps the mailed art. In that way, he gets in the back door of the museum.

So when his friend Chuck Close wants a piece by Ray exhibited in Close's own exhibit at the museum, the MOMA library shows the "mail art" that Ray sent.

His address book is a Who's Who of modern art: Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Christo, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol. All these artists knew and respected Ray Johnson and his work.

His house was a living space unfurnished except for shelves and shelves of his art works: small collages which he called moticos, drawings and paintings.

The film does not solve the puzzle of Ray Johnson, but it certainly presents what anyone knows of this oddly private artist. In fact, he was known as "the most famous unknown artist in the world."

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How to Draw a Bunny
Was his death a performance piece?
eccentricity and genius
Life (and Death?) As Art
Documentary about an Underappreciated Artist

How to Draw a Bunny
Starring: Roy Lichtenstein , Judith Malina , James Rosenquist , Ray Johnson (VIII) , and Chuck Close
Director: John W. Walter
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ASIN: B0002J58FQ
Release Date: 2004-09-21

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How to Draw a Bunny.......2007-06-26

Was his death a performance piece?.......2007-03-31

eccentricity and genius.......2007-01-25

Life (and Death?) As Art.......2005-12-24

Documentary about an Underappreciated Artist.......2005-11-07

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What Inspires You?
The art of creation, shared firsthand by artists who create!

Inspirations
Starring: Dale Chihuly , Tadao Ando , Édouard Lock , Louise LeCavalier , and David Bowie
Director: Michael Apted
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ASIN: B00006673N
Release Date: 2002-06-18

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In Inspirations seven artists from the famous (the late Roy Lichtenstein, David Bowie) to the more obscure (Pueblo sculptor Nora Narango-Morse, French Canadian dancer Louise Lecavalier) discuss why they became artists and what it means to create as both a daily routine and a lifelong passion. Director Michael Apted (Enough, the Up documentaries) neatly avoids the usual talking-head format of documentaries by focusing on very visual subjects. Narango-Morse digs mud from the mountains and works it between her toes, glass artist Dale Chihuly instructs urban kids as they turn molten mass into colorful creations, and Lecavalier and partner dance in dramatic staccato, choreographed by film subject Edouard Lock. Revelations are surprising, such as when Bowie extols the calm of waking at dawn since he quit drinking and drugging, and candid, such as when Japanese architect Tadao Ando confesses that the ugliness of his home city Osaka inspired him to add beauty and spirituality to his designs. --Kimberly Heinrichs

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Inspirations, from award-winning director Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist, The World Is Not Enough), is a 100-minute exploration of the creative process that takes off from the essential question, "how do artists get ideas?" and soars into the fascinating worlds inhabited by seven diverse artists--including David Bowie and Roy Lichtenstein--who discuss, sometimes freely, sometimes shyly, just how and why they work the way they do. 100 minutes.

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What Inspires You?.......2005-09-23

Listening to artists speak about their process helped get the inspiration burning in me again too. A good film for any artist of any discipline ~ and for art students too.

Unexpectedly I learned the most from the disciplines most unlike my own -- the choreographer said things which helped me think in new ways (example -- "why do artists think they should simplify? Think of a Forest -- a forest is complex, it is not on a human scale -- there is something different to notice every time you look at it. The complexity makes it interesting.") Also the concept of time in art -- and when is a piece of art "finished"? (Nora the sculptor feels something is finished when it feels it has been born; the dancer and choregrapher say a piece is never finished, is always changing) Compelling thoughts too from David Bowie -- "People think artists somehow KNOW more than other people. They don't. They just DWELL on things more."

The art of creation, shared firsthand by artists who create!.......2004-03-09

I've waited for a long time to purchase this film and I'm so glad it is now available. I saw this documentary at the Santa Barbara Film Festival a few years ago and was deeply moved by the work of the artists profiled as well as by the artists themselves. Some were familiar to me, while others (like sculptor Nora Naranjo-Morse) were a revelation. I think that civilization evolves through individual acts of creation by artists, writers, scientists, and inventors who shape the future with their minds and hearts. Apted's beautiful film lets us inside the minds and hearts of seven remarkable creators, and in doing so he gives all of us new license to explore, rebel, innovate, and grow.

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Outstanding!!!
A Must Have!

Roy Lichtenstein
Starring: Roy Lichtenstein
Director: Chris Hunt
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Chuck Close - A Portrait in Progress
Drawing the Line - Portrait of Keith Haring
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The Life & Times of Andy Warhol - Superstar
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ASIN: B000051S7P
Release Date: 2000-12-26

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The most remarkable thing about this 49-minute interview is the pop artist's candor in describing his process, both his search for subjects and his painting techniques. His openness makes this video a treat for the Lichtenstein aficionado and a valuable lesson for any art student. In keeping with his lifelong investigation of what constitutes art, the controversial painter willingly discusses criticism suggesting his work does not meet the criteria. Meanwhile a cartoonist whose work he copied weighs in on Lichtenstein, as well as a gallery owner and museum curator. The program looks at the pop art movement for context and takes viewers through each of Lichtenstein's stages from his large-dot reproductions of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse to his cartoon versions of Picasso through to his work of and for the New York City subway system. Whether or not one views him as a serious artist, it's clear that this painter has spent a lifetime being serious about art. --Kimberly Heinrichs

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A rare interview with the late, influential American artist Roy Lichtenstein, one of Pop Art's pioneers, highlight this fascinating profile. Some 30 years after his ground-breaking paintings first appeared--both shocking and delighting--the same works fetch record prices. But Lichtenstein's reputation did not depend on his past, as he painted steadily throughout the '70s, '80s and '90s until his death in 1997. The breadth and depth of his work has confirmed his position as one of the world's foremost artists and this program examines Lichtenstein's long and unique career.

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Outstanding!!!.......2003-02-27

This is an outstanding look at one of the most celebrated american artists ever. The video takes you into the beginnings of this great man's career thru today. There is some very interesting & informative conversations with Lichtenstein on his reason, technique, and perseptions on and about his art. He is an artist who is serious about his work but seems to take a humerous and lightened approach to the content and source for his art. RFL is truly a pioneer for modern American art and this video is sure to please those avid RFL and Pop art fans.

A Must Have!.......2000-10-09

This video is one of the best art films I have viewed in a long time, awesome! This film shows Roy at work and the viewer is introduced to the complexity behind the art of Roy Lichtenstein. This is a must have for any artist or art teacher who is interested in modern art and one of the greatest American artists ever!!

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Roy Lichtenstein: Reflections
Starring: Roy Lichtenstein
Director: Edgar B. Howard & Seth Schneidman
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Not perfect, but damn good!
A Very Brief Look At Andy
Packed and Illuminating
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A Must for any Warhol Fan.

The Life & Times of Andy Warhol
Starring: Liza Minnelli , Henry Geldzahler , Fritzie Miller , Sylvia Miles , and Jim Bakker
Director: Chuck Workman
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Release Date: 2001-01-09

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Charlie Rose with Byron Wien & Jim Cramer; Agnes Gund & Kurt Varnedoe; Marcus Roberts (September 30, 1997)

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Charlie Rose with Byron Wien & Jim Cramer; Agnes Gund & Kurt Varnedoe; Marcus Roberts (September 30, 1997)

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Charlie talks to economic analysts Byron Wien & Jim Cramer about the Federal Reserve's announcement that they would not be raising interest rates. Next, philanthropist and collector Agnes Gund and curator Kurt Varnedoe from the Museum of Modern Art reflect on the life and career of Pop Art master Roy Lichtenstein. Finally, jazz pianist Marcus Roberts speaks with Charlie about his latest album, Blues for the New Millennium.

Charlie Rose with Anna Wintour; Edmund Morris; Dorothy Lichtenstein, Bonnie Clearwater & Jeff Koons (January 7, 2002)

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Charlie Rose with Anna Wintour; Edmund Morris; Dorothy Lichtenstein, Bonnie Clearwater & Jeff Koons (January 7, 2002)

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A dialogue with Anna Wintour, fashion icon and editor of Vogue, on the retirement of designer Yves Saint-Laurent. Also, Edmund Morris talks about his biography of former president Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Rex. Then, a conversation about the late Roy Lichtenstein's art in two new exhibitions with his widow, Dorothy, director of MoCA Bonnie Clearwater, and artist Jeff Koons.

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