Ferus

Under the seminal direction of Irving Blum, Ferus Gallery quickly became one of the leading galleries on the West Coast, showing important and groundbreaking works€"including Andy Warhol€s Campbell€s Soup Cans, Roy Lichtenstein€s Drowning Girl, and Ed Ruscha€s Los Angeles County Museum on Fire€"and helping to launch the American Pop movement. The book was first published on the occasion of the 2002 exhibition of the same name at Gagosian€s Chelsea gallery. A timeline documenting the Ferus gallery€s history opens the fully illustrated catalogue, followed by an interview with Irving Blum by Roberta Bernstein and a critical discussion of Warhol€s Campbell€s soup can paintings by Kirk Varnedoe. This hardcover edition is 148 pages, with 93 color and 67 black-and-white reproductions, including evocative documentary photography by Dennis Hopper.