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Before Pop Art, there were billboards over Times Square. Before he was a legend, James Rosenquist painted signs high above the city. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art, written with David Dalton, is his remarkable memoir of an American original’s journey.
Rosenquist takes readers from his childhood in North Dakota and Minnesota — the son of an amateur pilot and an artist mother — to postwar New York, where he painted signs by day and dreamed in monumental images by night. Standing alongside Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg, he helped forge Pop Art, turning advertising imagery into museum-scale masterpieces like F-111.
Full of vivid stories — the thrill of the 1960s art scene, friendships and rivalries, the political fire behind works like The Swimmer in the Econo-mist — this is Rosenquist in his own voice: direct, curious, unpretentious. An irresistible first-hand account of creativity at full throttle.
Before he was a legend of Pop Art, James Rosenquist painted billboards high above Times Square. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art is his remarkable memoir of an American original’s journey.
Rosenquist takes readers from his childhood in North Dakota and Minnesota — the son of an amateur pilot and an artist mother — to postwar New York, where he painted signs by day and dreamed in monumental images by night. Standing alongside Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg, he helped forge Pop Art, turning advertising imagery into museum-scale masterpieces like F-111.
Written with David Dalton, this memoir is full of vivid stories: the thrill of the 1960s art scene, friendships and rivalries, and the political fire that drove works like The Swimmer in the Econo-mist. Rosenquist writes with the same energy that filled his canvases — direct, curious, and unpretentious.
For anyone fascinated by twentieth-century art, Painting Below Zero is an irresistible first-hand account of creativity at full throttle.
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