Paintings drawings & pastels

9 poems, 20 visual works, and a theoretical essay.This book reproduces for the first time, the original texts and visual works from Roy Lichtenstein's MA thesis presented at Ohio State University in 1949. Central to his thesis is the awareness of the limitations of written language to explain visual work. He presents a series of poems in haiku-prose style to express his ideas about painting and illustrates these ideas with twenty original visual works.