Mel Ramos
Superman at the Supermarket
In 1963 Mel Ramos, one of the first artists to embrace Pop Art, developed a preference for a tantalizing, seductive visual language. In typical Pop Art colors, beauty queens and nude Hollywood stars are combined with commodities to populate his paintings. In accordance with advertising aesthetics, he placed female bodies in erotic, occasionally vulgar poses on top of consumer goods, thus taking his theme from advertising’s enduring slogan, “sex sells.” This catalogue is an homage to Mel Ramos, in celebration of his eightieth birthday.
September 2015
ISBN 978-3-7356-0166-7
16,00 × 23,00 cm
96 Pages
59 colored and 10 b/w illustrations
Hardcover, bound
Languages: German, English
Editor
Thomas Levy
Text by
Konstantin Jacoby
Design by
Claas Möller, claasbooks.de, Hamburg
Events
Exhibition: "Superman at the Supermarket", 15.09. - 28.10.2015 LEVY Galerie , Hamburg. Accompanying: Kunsthaus Hannover is presenting an exhibition with prints by Mel Ramos.
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