Tacoma Art Museum Docents Blog TAM Docents Blog: FW: Roy Lichtenstein Training

Here are the online versions of some of the documents that I previously sent out.

Roy Lichtenstein Interview.

Originally recorded in January 1966 by David Sylvester in New York City for broadcast by BBC Third Programme. The interview was reedited for publication in 1997 for David Sylvester's "Some Kind of Reality".

http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/sylvester1.htm

On Cubism:

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/glossary_Cubism.html

On Pop Art:

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/glossary_Pop_art.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art

The “Intro to Lichtenstein” document was scanned from a book so I cannot easily make the file smaller, but I will research this a little more. If you didn’t receive it, please do a little research about Lichtenstein on your own, and I will have printed copies of the file for you at Monday’s training.

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From: Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:12 AM
Subject: Roy Lichtenstein Training

Before the Docent Training on Monday, March 27 at 10:30 am, please read the 3 attached files (about 10 pages total) and start doing a little bit of preliminary research on Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art and Cubism (maybe about 20 minutes research on the internet or in books).

Docent Training on Monday, March 27 at 10:30 am will involve the following:

Watching a short, 30-minute movie about Lichtenstein’s process and influences
Making notes on and discussing what you have learned about Lichtenstein

Notes will be made by everyone on large papers stuck to the wall and will address 3 different themes: Lichtenstein Highlights (biography info), Lichtenstein’s Influences, and Pop Art/Cubism. Please be prepared to write down a few tidbits of information!
We would also like 3 or 4 of you to give small summaries (1 or 2 minutes only) of what you learned about Lichtenstein and Pop Art and Cubism, from the readings and from your own preliminary research. Not everyone will have to do this but hopefully a few of you will volunteer to share your knowledge.

Rock’s lecture introduction to the exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters.

I’m not asking you to do hours of homework, but please do brush up on Pop Art and Cubism and what else was going on around Roy Lichtenstein in the 1950s when he first came to prominence. As those of you who are teachers already know, knowledge piles up slowly and cumulatively, and I think Rock’s lecture will be more relevant if we approach it with a good background.

Note to Wednesday Night trainees:

The attached documents are the same readings that were given to you at Wednesday night’s training. We have re-arranged what we did a little bit to hopefully make the training more effective.