"Over a period of four decades, Drs. Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell built a remarkable collection of works by some of the most prominent modernist and contemporary artists in Europe, North America, and Latin America. Guided by their personal taste and a clear preference for figurative art, they acquired over 100 distinguished works, almost none of which belongs to the abstract movements that dominated the art scene during these same year ..."
"Overview "As revealing and entertaining as any text in the literature of artists talking. [Rivers is] an agreeable hero, recklessly honest, who, in this exhilarating, funny-tragic book, shows his wares and unfolds his tale."-Peter Schjeldahl, New York Times 285 full-color and duo-tone illustrations"
"With a giant, soft drum set by Claes Oldenburg, a white alphabet by Jasper Johns, a combine painting with radio attached by Robert Rauschenburg, a halved peach, Buick, naked lady (all together) by James Rosenquist, rows of Campbell's soup cans by Andy Warhol, pin-up girls by Mel Ramos, and a graphic explosion by Roy Lichtenstein, the works gathered here pack more of a big bang than a mere pop. With signature pieces by the movement's sta ..."
"The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the emergence and shaping of the twenty-first-century world. This volume brings together an impressive array of scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines to explore the global significance of King―then, now, and in the future.Employing King’s metaphor of “the great world house,” the major focus is o ..."
"Poetry. This book is Jeni Olin's first full collection of poems. It includes original full-color drawings by Larry Rivers. "The rapidly disappearing New York landscape gleams afresh in Jeni Olin's wonderfully caustic and vulnerable lyrics. As she reflects on how 'the Manhattan dusk shots that accompany the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme song leave sadder than the death of a friend,' the city comes in focus, paradoxically, 'like Kleenex on ..."
LarryRivers Recent relief paintings : December 7, 1988-January 7, 1989 by Kurt Vonnegut, LarryRivers 56 Pages, Published 1988 by Marlborough Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-89797-049-5, ISBN: 0-89797-049-7
"The photographs that fill the endpapers of this 50-year retrospective show Larry Rivers between takes of Pull My Daisy with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; then leaning against a car with a Speedo-wearing Frank O'Hara; posing thoughtfully with Kenneth Koch; and playing sax at the Blue Bird. Facsimiles of creased and dog-eared review clippings include midcentury New York Times, Herald Tribune and ArtNews raves, and a 1997 Times piece cr ..."
Rivers (Modern artists) by Sam Hunter, LarryRivers Hardcover, 102 Pages, Published 1972 by H. N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-4424-4, ISBN: 0-8109-4424-3
"Book by Hunter, Sam"
Rebels and Runaways(1st Edition) Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida (New Black Studies Series) by Larry Eugene Rivers Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07966-5, ISBN: 0-252-07966-3
"Published in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, USA this is a major retrospective of Larry Rivers. Rivers, one of the original Pop artists on the 1950s art scene, is known for his rich and eclectic style. Inspired by sources as diverse as the impressionists, Napoleon and Hollywood movies, Rivers' work shows a keen sense of history and adventurous spirit. He was active not only in the visual arts but also in jazz ..."
LarryRivers Fashion show; November 9-December 4, 1999 by LarryRivers 23 Pages, Published 1999 by Marlborough ISBN-13: 978-0-89797-163-8, ISBN: 0-89797-163-9
LarryRivers Recent Work, 29 October through 29 November 1997 by LarryRivers 38 Pages, Published 1997 by Marlborough ISBN-13: 978-0-89797-128-7, ISBN: 0-89797-128-0
LarryRivers by LarryRivers Hardcover, Published 1995 by Random House Value Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-517-12758-2, ISBN: 0-517-12758-X