November 12-December 22, 2011. Fully Illustrated Catalogue featuring essays by by Karen Bandlow-Bata and Carol Yinghua Lu.

Notes on the work: Consistent with Lichtenstein's entire oeuvre, Landscapes in the Chinese Style play with American stereotypes and clichés by incorporating the elements of Asian culture most familiar to Western viewers-- a crooked bonsai tree in Landscape with Fog (1996), a pointed coolie hat in Landscape with Boats (study) (1995). However, the overt irony of his earlier Pop works cedes to aestheticism and formal delicacy: the Benday dots do not mimic the arbitrary techniques of commercial illustration, but rather appear in cloud-like patches that express the effervescence of space and form, as in the dreamy, abstract Landscape with Boat (1996). Sublimating the intrinsic serenity of his source material, Lichtenstein reflects on the harmony and balance of the ancient works through his unmistakable and edgy lexicon of modern visual effects.