Jack Pierson Desire/Despair: A Retrospective: Selected Works 1985-2005

by Richard D. Marshall

Like Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha before him, Jack Pierson expresses himself through a variety of media. Drawn to stardom, melodrama, loneliness, and emotional narrative as subjects for his art, Pierson infuses his work with literal and visual references to lost love, sexual longing, faded glamour, fleeting moments, and sentimental musings.This book will contain approximately 200 works organized into five sections that echo the prevalent themes in Pierson's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847828964
• ISBN13: 9780847828968
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 4.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.9" x 13.1"