Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and... Read full biography
Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and inspiration from Longo's fascination with the works of many artists in many media, but particularly from... Read full biography
Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and inspiration from Longo's fascination with the works of many artists in many media, but particularly from Hollywood's stylization of violence. His figures are captured in mid-motion; one wonders whether they are dancing or dying. Their creation and popularity have come to represent the high-speed,... Read full biography
Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and inspiration from Longo's fascination with the works of many artists in many media, but particularly from Hollywood's stylization of violence. His figures are captured in mid-motion; one wonders whether they are dancing or dying. Their creation and popularity have come to represent the high-speed, high-pressure decade of the 1980's. Longo describes the subjects in this series as ". doomed souls. They're people who built the buildings that would eventually fall on them." . He views his work as abstract symbols, ". more like Japanese calligraphy, or... Read full biography
Robert Longo (1953-). Where United States culture, media, greed, and violence meet, one finds the work of Robert Longo. Longo's ground breaking series, Men In The Cities, draws its strength and inspiration from Longo's fascination with the works of many artists in many media, but particularly from Hollywood's stylization of violence. His figures are captured in mid-motion; one wonders whether they are dancing or dying. Their creation and popularity have come to represent the high-speed, high-pressure decade of the 1980's. Longo describes the subjects in this series as ". doomed souls. They're people who built the buildings that would eventually fall on them." . He views his work as abstract symbols, ". more like Japanese calligraphy, or logos" . Longo works with assistants to create an image and, as an artist, focuses on the communicat... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (47)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Rapture Art's Seduction by Fashion (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Townsend, Chris
0 pages
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art
1996
Ratcliff, Carter
352 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day
1995
Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson
960 pages (color)
Old Glory The American Flag in Contemporary Art (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Rubin, David S
64 pages (color)
The Exile's Return Toward a Redefinition of Painting
1993
McEvilley, Thomas
231 pages
A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Columbus Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Rose, Bernice
128 pages (color)
Power:Its Myths and Mores in American Art 1961-1991 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Day, Holliday T
159 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts
1991
Murken, Axel/Christa Murken
358 pages (color)
Affinities and Intuitions Gerald S Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art
1990
Benezra, Neal (editor)
312 pages (color)
First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Elizabeth
149 pages (color)
Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks
1989
Block, Ursula and Michael Glasmeier
278 pages (color)
Robert Longo (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Fox, Howard
208 pages (color)
Artwords 2 Discourse on the Early 80s
1988
Siegel, Jeanne (editor)
319 pages
Commited to Print (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Wye, Deborah
120 pages
Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985
1987
Crane, Diana
194 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
New, Used and Improved Art for the 80's
1987
Frank, Peter/Michael McKenzie
159 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
Postminimalism into Maximalism American Art 1966-1986
1987
Pincus-Witten, Robert
429 pages
The New Image Painting in the 1980s
1986
Godfrey, Tony
159 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
50 New York Artists
1986
Marshall, Richard
118 pages (color)
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Robert Longo
1985
Ratcliff, Carter
100 pages (color)
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
New Art
1984
Freeman, Phyllis
207 pages (color)
Art of Our Time The Saatchi Collection (4 Vols)
1984
Lund Humphries
700 pages (color)
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
New Figuration in America John Porter Retzer Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Milwaukee Art Museum
122 pages (color)
A Heritage Renewed Representational Drawing Today (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Plous, Phyllis
87 pages (color)
World Art Trends
1983
Pradel, Jean-louise (editor)
200 pages (color)
The American Artist as Printmaker (Exhibition catalog)