The renowned artist offers a humorous take on his own life, discussing among other topics his Bronx childhood, his jazz career, his legendary excesses, and his brief stint in the military. 50,000 first printing. $70,000 ad/promo. Tour.

What Did I Do?: The Unauthorized Autobiography Larry Rivers With Arnold Weinstein

Arts & Photography

Weinstein, Arnold

RIVERS, Larry

Individual Artists

Harpercollins

What Did I Do?: The Unauthorized Autobiography - Larry Rivers with Arnold Weinstein

What Did I Do?: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Larry Rivers, With Arnold Weinstein

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Perennial

Larry Rivers

Random House Value Publishing

Gathers drawings, including studies for major paintings, created by the author during the fifties, sixties, and seventies, and shares his comments on his art, influences, and life

Larry Rivers: Drawings & Digressions

Clarkson/Potter

Larry Rivers' History of Matzah: The Story of the Jews (an exhibition catalogue)

The Jewish Museum

Larry Rivers: Art and the artist : March 3-27, 1993, Marlborough Gallery, Inc

Marlborough Gallery

What Did I Do? is the testimony of one of America's finest artists and includes memorable perceptions [and gossip] of friends, lovers, rivals, and the jazz and art worlds: Frank O'Hara, Terry Southern, Leo Castelli, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Clement Greenberg, Tibor de Nagy, Jackson Pollock, Delmore Schwartz, Rudy Burckhardt, Hans Hofmann, W.H. Auden, Miles Davis, Andy Warhol. Born Larry Grossberg in 1923 in the Bronx, NY, Rivers began his career in 1940 as a jazz saxophonist and composer, changed his name and became an American icon to artists everywhere. A great figurative painter, Rivers is also acclaimed as a precursor of pop art; an artist with an unashamed interest in sexuality and the private moment, he is also celebrated for bringing history back into contemporary painting. Candid, thoughtful, and funny, this book is among the finest of artists' memoirs. This edition includes 16 pages of color and 130 black-and-white illustrations. "What Did I Do? is the harrowingly true tale of a man whose early years were, by his own accounting, governed by often brutal instincts. He responds crazily, rashly to jazz and sex and drugs, and finally to paint, becoming Larry Rivers, one of the most humane and interesting and idiosyncratic visual artists of our time."—Kurt Vonnegut

What Did I Do?: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Larry Rivers

Da Capo Press

With a giant, soft drum set by Claes Oldenburg, a white alphabet by Jasper Johns, a combine painting with radio attached by Robert Rauschenburg, a halved peach, Buick, naked lady (all together) by James Rosenquist, rows of Campbell's soup cans by Andy Warhol, pin-up girls by Mel Ramos, and a graphic explosion by Roy Lichtenstein, the works gathered here pack more of a big bang than a mere pop. With signature pieces by the movement's stars, the John and Kimiko Powers Collection of Pop Art is considered one of the most extensive in private hands. Accompanied by individual essays on each of the represented artists.

Pop Art: The John And Kimiko Powers Collection

DINE, Jim

Hickey, Dave

Shapiro, David

Johns, Jasper

Rauschenberg, Robert

Rosenquist, James

Goldman, Judith

Rothkopf, Scott

OLDENBURG, Claes

Norden, Linda

Crone, Rainer

Schaesberg, Petrus Graf

Relyea, Lane

LICHTENSTEIN, Roy

Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy

Wesselmann, Tom

Ramos, Mel

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

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