The American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) was a pioneer of a new era in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new artistic vocabulary for a new age. With his radical use of industrial production techniques and mundane, everyday images such as cartoons, comics, and advertising, Lichtenstein joined his contemporaries like Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist to reflect and satirize American media and consumer culture. Works like Look, Mickey! (1961), Drowning Girl (1963), and Whaam! (1963) used mass production techniques, particularly Ben-Day dot printing, to create an effect of magnification and "dot" style that has become synonymous with Lichtenstein. This book provides a critical overview of Lichtenstein's career, tracing his early Pop statements through to later "brushstrokes" that respond to Abstract Expressionism and re-interpretations of modern masterpieces. It examines his leading position in interwar modernism and the ways in which his works critique and document 20th-century America.