Vicki! I-I Thought I Heard Your Voice!

細節

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Vicki! I-I Thought I Heard Your Voice!
signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '64' (on the reverse)
enamel on steel
42 x 42 x 2 in. (106.7 x 106.7 x 5.1 cm.)
Executed in 1964. This work is from an edition of eight.

來源

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Locksley Shea Gallery, Minneapolis
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1970

出版

R. Rosenblum, "Pop and Non-Pop: An Essay in Distinction," Canadian Art 23, January, 1966, p. 53, no. 1 (illustrated).
P. Tuchman, "American Art in Germany: The History of a Phenomenon," Artforum, vol. 9, no. 3, November, 1970, p. 63 (illustrated).
P. Tuchman, "American Art in Germany: The History of a Phenomenon," Artforum, vol. 9, no. 9, May, 1971, p. 75 (illustrated).
D. Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein, New York, 1971, p. 113 (illustrated).
Y. Nakahara, ed., "Art Now," Man-Made Nautre, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1971, p. 119 (illustrated).
M. Lobel, Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art, New Haven and London 2002, p. 134, no. 134 (illustrated in color).

展覽

Cologne, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Roy Lichtenstein- Classic of the New, June-September 2005, pp. 102-103 and 238 (illustrated in color; another example exhibited).

拍品專文

Vicki! I-I Thought I Heard Your Voice!, 1964 is an icon of Pop art. Roy Lichtenstein's comic book works define the artist in the public imagination and are emblematic of all Pop. Seeking a truly mechanical working method and inspired by industrial New York street and subway signs, Lichtenstein rendered Vicki! in enamel. Unlike his paintings which mimic a mechanical process, Vicki! is truly fabricated and comes closest to realizing the Pop spirit.

With the impending threat of kitsch infringing further and further onto fine art, Lichtenstein's images, taken directly from romance and war comics, were a true affront. The barbarians had breached the gate. Melodramatic and overwrought, but lacking a larger narrative context, Vicki! lays bare the thin veneer of America's 1950s stereotypes of gender roles. The man, obscured from the back, creates a frame for Vicki's face. Needy, she looks for the support women were supposed to find in their men. The fallacy of these roles is apparent in the image's sheer absurdity. Lichtenstein was not a didactic though, and Vicki! remains a captivating image. Deftly painted, funny, visually stunning and poignant Vicky! is a Pop icon.