A lively, candid memoir from one of our greatest living artists—part of the 1960s Pop Art movement along with Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—whose vast canvases filled with
dramatic, surreally juxtaposed images revolutionized twentieth-century painting.
James Rosenquist writes about his childhood in North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and about arriving in New York City in 1955, penniless but with a scholarship to the
Art Students League. He describes meeting fellow painters Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, nights at the celebrated Cedar Tavern, and days
suspended on scaffolding high over Broadway painting movie or theater billboards, a craft that would directly influence his art. He writes openly about the art world, his dealers, and his
clients. And he explains how he came to make such major works as Zone, F-111, and Star Thief, among others.
Wonderfully anecdotal, captivating, and unexpected—a unique look inside the contemporary art world in the company of one of its icons.
