Jim Dine

Published to accompany the first major exhibition of Jim Dine's (b. 1935) work from the 1960s, this book reproduces scores of never-before-seen mixed-media works, paintings, and sculpture by one of America's best-known image-makers.Many of the works featured in this volume contain elements of the now-familiar themes of Dine's career: tools, robes, hearts, palettes, and clothing. The book is the first to explore the complex relationship between Dine's mixed-media work and his early performances and Happenings.With essays by three curators, statements and writings by the artist, and superb colorplates of the work themselves, this book is an important addition to scholarship on the 1960s, perhaps the most significant and fascinating period in American art.