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Recognized as a major Pop artist in his day, Allan D’Arcangelo (1930–1998) has yet to receive the critical reevaluation of painters like Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. His first monograph in nearly a decade introduces new audiences to his iconic paintings, particularly his celebrated visions of life on the road.Like Pop peers Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha, Allan D’Arcangelo incorporated mass-manufactured images in works that elevate scenes of everyday American life. While his work often features imagery from more familiar 1960s art—Jacqueline Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, smoking pin-up girls, Superman, Lucky Strike—it differs in the surreal elements he introduced to Pop tropes and romantic views of the American industrial landscape.D’Arcangelo once observed his “most profound experiences of landscape were looking through the windshield.” The artist brought a Pop sensibility to the tradition of landscape painting in a graphic style that touched on Minimalism, Precisionism, and Hard-edge painting. Often framed from the perspective of the driver’s seat, D’Arcangelo’s work captures the deeply American experience of flying down an endless road. D’Arcangelo’s signature scrolling landscape cut through with flashing signs is as familiar to road trippers as it is to video game racers.This comprehensive publication includes over 200 reproductions and three essays detailing what critic Dore Ashton describes as the “poetic awareness of the vastnesses both visible and invisible in American life [that] marked and distinguished [D’Arcangelo’s] work.” This book is edge stained.

The first book on the New York–based painter whose large-scale canvases portray young figures in charged states of intimacy and vulnerability against the backdrop of contemporary urban life.Krewer’s raw, emotionally resonant figurative works captured international attention almost immediately after his emergence in the art world. His work is rendered in bold brushwork and shifts between moody and riotous palettes. Krewer’s large-scale paintings often depict youthful figures—frequently male—in ambiguous or confrontational poses. The immediacy, and often urgency, of his imagery draws viewers into complex emotional terrain. The artist has had a dizzying ascent: his work has been the subject of surveys at museums such as Aspen Art Museum and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, all while career-defining institutions have acquired his work, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Hammer, Los Angeles; MCA Chicago; and the Walker Art Center, among many others. This oversize volume bound in Italian cloth and housed in a clothbound slipcase honors this extraordinary artist’s practice: it features the full arc of his career with new critical essays offering fresh insights into Krewer’s influences, methods, and artistic evolution.