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From the inside dust jacket :
With an audience that can only be estimated in the billions, Peter Max may …
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From the inside dust jacket :
With an audience that can only be estimated in the billions, Peter Max may well be the world's most popular artist. Here, for the first time, is a book dedicated to the dazzling variety of drawings, paintings, and color combinations that is the world of Peter Max.
From such painted icons as his Statue of Liberty series and his dreamlike landscapes, to his pulsating graphis and world-famous posters that defined the visual aesthetic of the age of rock and roll, this reichly illustrated book finally puts Max in the perspective as a leading figure on the contemporary art scene. Compiled with the cooperation of the artist himself, it takes the viewer backstage into the studio and the celebrity-studded life of an artist who is himself a celebrity.
Peter Max's life is every bit as colorful and surprising as his kaleidoscopic work. The text by Dr. Charles A. Riley II, a professor at the City University of New York, follows his international odyssey from his boyhood in China on to New York, where Max has become the artist laureate through his outstanding parade of high-profile art projects. Along the way he rubs elbows with premiers and presidents, rock stars (including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and many others), movie stars, and sports heroes, and has one-man exhibitions of his work at prestigious museums such as the Corcoran Gallery and the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., the M.H. De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the Academy of Arts Museum in Moscow and The Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
This book is a magical tour of the world of Peter Max, illuminated step-by-step with the artist's paintings, drawings, graphics, etchings, and posters.
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This 1st edition 2002 book is not only in good condition, but SIGNED (!!!) by the artist himself complete with a drawing!
Measurements
12 1/4" tall
10 1/2" wide
1 1/4" deep
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