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Painting Below Zero
Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art | James Rosenquist
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The forefront living artist describes his childhood in North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s and 1940s, his education at the Art Students League, and the influence of his relationships with numerous contemporaries.
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Horse Blinders (detail) 1968-69.

"We were all weird about corporations then. The telephone company was public enemy number one. There were ethical questions being discussed involving government spying." (197).

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My photo of F-111 at MoMA, March 2016.

"Everything that is fed into the side of one's eyes is what lays claim to reality. It makes you think about your orientation . . . When you get close to an image, all you see is the color and this one line you're painting." (154)

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House of Fire (detail), 1981.

"The artist was the devise, a kind of machine for painting. But then again, all paintings are self-portraits." (134)

Last spring when I was in NY, MoMA had F-111 installed and I was so wowed, I had to have this memoir. Tonight I pulled it from the In Progress stack and hope to have it #finishedbyfriday.