Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964–1966 Regular Merchandise the artist’s series of cadmium

the artist’s series of cadmium red drawings

Taking the form of a reader

and perceptual

Published 2014

professor of medieval art history at the University of Notre Dame

Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964–1966 Regular Merchandise the artist’s series of cadmiumThis small, intimately scaled book is the first to concentrate on the compelling early work of Vija Celmins (b. 1938). The artist is best known for her intricate representations of ocean waves, night skies, desert floors, and spider webs. Some of her first subjects, however, were warplanes, smoking guns, and other dangers inspired by images from library books, magazines, and television. In the mid 1960s, Pop Art was making its debut on the West Coast,