Roy Lichtenstein

The record of a special collaboration between a great artist and a talented, resourceful photographer. In words and pictures, it tells how contemporary master Roy Lichtenstein created a 5-story-high mural for the lobby of The Equitable Life Assurance Soc. building in New York. Photographer Bob Adelman closely observes the entire artistic process, from Lichtenstein's initial work in the studio through his weeks of painting on the site to the unveiling in early 1986. Highlights of the many conversations Lichtenstein and Adelman had are included. The noted author and art critic Calvin Tomkins adds an essay on Lichtenstein.