In the mid-1960s Marisol was lauded as?the?female artist of her generation and was proclaimed to be "the only girl artist with?glamour" for her fashion sense and "the Latin Garbo" for her apparent exoticism, legendary beauty and famed silences. Thousands lined up to see her remarkable life-size Pop art sculptures early in her career, and her celebrity nearly overshadowed her formidable accomplishments. But this attention would fade following her temporary retreat from the art world in the late 1960s and a shift in her work's subject matter. Her 2016 obituary in the?Guardian?described her as "the forgotten star of Pop art."
This catalog, the most comprehensive on Marisol
Marisol: A Retrospective
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