Robert Indiana. Hard Edge

Few artworks are more widely recognized than Robert Indiana´s iconic Pop image Love," which was originally commissioned as a Christmas card by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1965. Appealing to a wide spectrum of viewers from its inception to the present--1960s idealists to museum-bookstore shoppers--"Love" has been reproduced in prints, political banners, stamps and an equally iconic sculpture. This volume is published in honor of the artist´s eightieth birthday and provides an intriguing look at his canonical large-scale metal sculpture. In addition to "Love," such well-known works as the "Electric Eat," "Art" and the autobiographical "Numbers" series are reproduced. Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in Indiana in 1928 and took his home state´s name after moving to New York in 1954. He became known by the early 1960s for his hard-edged abstract paintings featuring text, numbers and symbols."