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Robert LongoEdmund from Men in the Cities1985
1985

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- CreatorRobert Longo (1953, American)
- Creation Year1985
- DimensionsHeight: 68 in. (172.72 cm)Width: 39 in. (99.06 cm)
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- ConditionDimensions listed exclude the current frame.
- Gallery LocationMiami, FL
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU46637473142
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About the Artist
Robert Longo
The drawings by artist Robert Longo are a sensory experience: They are monumental, detailed and hard-hitting in their subject matter, which often includes critiques of power, social unrest and consumer capitalism.
Longo has spent his career exploring mediums as varied as the Photorealistic charcoal drawings for which he is best known and film direction. In all of his work, however, he draws inspiration from his deep background in sculpture. “I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I’m carving the image out rather than painting the image. I’m carving it out with erasers and tools like that,” he once said.
The Long Island, New York, native attended high school with a man who was shot at Kent State University while protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War in 1970, and the famous image of this man lying dead on the ground influenced Longo so deeply that he began to consider all art political. Longo attended Buffalo State College, where he met and became friends with artist Cindy Sherman, and later the two moved to New York City together.
Longo’s revered work includes his charcoal and graphite “Men in the Cities” drawings. The Photorealist series, which debuted at Metro Pictures gallery in Manhattan in 1981, depicted people in formal business clothing. Posing in suspended animation in unusual contortions, the figures take on a choreographic quality and represent the career-minded “yuppies” of the era.
“Men in the Cities” was inspired by punk rock music and decades later has been cited as a visual reference for the opening sequence of the popular television drama Mad Men. The work was among the most recognizable and iconic of the Pictures Generation — the movement by artists who came of age in the 1970s and were disillusioned by the social and political conditions of the time. In 2014, Longo created 12 charcoal drawings for a series titled “Gang of Cosmos,” which were black-and-white depictions of famous Abstract Expressionist works by artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Lee Krasner.
Through his provocative, detailed and highly precise prints, drawings, photography and sculpture, Longo continues to challenge traditional sources of power and authority.
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- Men in the CitiesBy Robert LongoLocated in Miami, FLFrom the set of five lithographs, on Arches paper, with full margins published by Seibu Department Stores Ltd., Tokyo. Signed, dated, annotated 'III' and numbered from the edition o...Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
Price Upon Request - Gretchen from Men in the CitiesBy Robert LongoLocated in Miami, FLHand signed and dated recto lower right corner and numbered lower left corner. This is 13/38 with 10 artist’s proofs. Published by Brooke Alexander Editions, New York.Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Men in the CitiesBy Robert LongoLocated in Miami, FLFrom the set of five lithographs, on Arches paper, with full margins published by Seibu Department Stores Ltd., Tokyo. Signed, dated, annotated 'II' and numbered from the edition of...Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Raphael from Men in the CitiesBy Robert LongoLocated in Miami, FLHand signed and dated 98 lower right and numbered lower left corner in pencil. Publlished by Wolfryd-Selway Fine Art, New York. Framed dimensions 51.75" x 35.75" (131.5 x 91 cm).Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Men in the CitiesBy Robert LongoLocated in Miami, FLSigned, dated '90 recto lower right, annotated 'IV' recto lower center margin and numbered from the edition of 48 recto lower left in pencil. From the set of five published by Seibu ...Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Men in the CitiesBy Robert LongoLocated in Miami, FLSigned, dated '90 recto lower right, annotated 'V' recto lower center margin and numbered from the edition of 48 recto lower left in pencil. From the set of five published by Seibu D...Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
MaterialsLithograph
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