Roy's House
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Welcome to Roy's house! Come on in and take a look around. There is a big sofa with room for lots of friends, three red fish swimming in a bowl, a yellow chair for reading, and, of course, Roy's studio, filled with paintbrushes. Susan Goldman Rubin pairs her simple narrative style with the energetic works of Roy Lichtenstein to create an early concept book that is also a fun and accessible introduction to one of the twentieth century's most iconic artists.
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Roy Lichtenstein's dramatic blowups of comic book fragments served as ironic commentary on high art, but Rubin (Stand There! She Shouted: The Invincible Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron) interprets them as a child would, seeing a painting of a rotary phone as an invitation: "In Roy's house, a telephone rings. Company is coming!" A contemporary sectional in a painted living room is "a great big couch. There is room for many friends." The journey through the midcentury modern house continues to his studio: "Roy paints pictures here!" Rubin imagines readers participating in Lichtenstein's work: "We can paint pictures too. Swoosh a stroke of yellow, drip, dripping on the floor." The book's most arresting image is one of two photos that accompany the author's note. It shows Lichtenstein in jeans and a sweater vest at work on one of his huge canvases a collision between the three-dimensional realness of the man versus the flattened cartoon art he's painting. While the text doesn't say much about why the artist painted the way he did, Rubin's study provides a joyously uninhibited chance to inhabit Lichtensteinian space. Ages 3 5.
