Major new exhibit for thief and hack Roy Lichtenstein: "Roy Lichtenstein: Like New": Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, 11 Oct 02026-10 May 02027
Roy Lichtenstein [Wikipedia] [Ben Day Dots]
But he transformed the original comics art "in a number of subtle but crucial ways" my ass... [Bratatat!] [an old windmill comics folks tilt at...]
Drowning Girl
["Why couldn't the funny pages be fine art?"]
["His work is now widely accepted, although some criticize him for borrowing from comics without attributing the original creators, paying royalties, or seeking permission from copyright holders."]
["David Barsalou has dedicated decades to identifying all of Lichtenstein's source materials and has posted more than 1,000 images on Flickr detailing Lichtenstein's unrecognized sources."]
[Neilalien redux: Deconstructing Lichtenstein]
[Flickr]
["Lichtenstein made several notable changes from the original source": he changed the name from 'Mal' to the more-heroic-sounding 'Brad'! Wow! Art!]
[Everett Kinstler: "no comics publisher would have hired Lichtenstein- he wasn't good enough"]
Whaam!: good long read here ["Ernesto Priego implicates National Periodicals in the case of Whaam!, as the artists were never credited in the original comic books." (The original artists had been screwed over already, so it was OK to continue it?)] [Whaat? by Dave Gibbons]
Maybe Lichtenstein had interesting things to say- and an excellent eye for which comic-book imagery to choose to say them- but then to "produce" something that essentially was the original comics panel enlarged and stuck up on a wall? Either just create your own panels- or if you can't draw, you might as well just write an essay criticizing boring snobby Abstract Expressionism, or lampooning the normalizing trivializing banal corporate depictions in culture of hyper-masculine militarism or women in cliched romantic turmoil or American life, etc., and use the original panels as your examples/exhibits...
