Jack Pierson: Desire/despair - A Retrospective - Selected Works, 1985-2005

by Richard Marshall

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Like Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha before him, Jack Pierson expresses himself through a variety of media. Drawn to stardom, melodrama, loneliness, and emotional narrative as subjects for his art, Pierson infuses his work with literal and visual references to lost love, sexual longing, faded glamour, fleeting moments, and sentimental musings.This book will contain approximately 200 works organized into five sections that echo the prevalent themes in Pierson's oeuvre: Riches and Fame, Desire Despair, Rented Rooms, Another Time Another Place, and Ghosts. A subversive playfulness and an erotic undercurrent run throughout, especially in the photographs of men, including never-before-published celebrity portraits.Surveying more than twenty years of the artist's career, this beautifully designed volume marks a milestone for all fans of Pierson's art.
  • ISBN10 0847828964
  • ISBN13 9780847828968
  • Publish Date 7 November 2006
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 27 August 2024
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rizzoli International Publications
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English