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‘Love’ sculpture artist Robert Indiana was an angry egomaniac, new book claims

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Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein — Indiana viewed himself as a hard-edge painter in league with only the artist Ellsworth Kelly.

While artists like the famously self-promoting Warhol got retrospectives that toured the US and Europe, Indiana brooded that he wasn’t better known.

He was given a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art on one floor, but he wanted the whole museum — and would have preferred MOMA, at that. “This artist had the reputation for being reclusive.

Another word people liked to use to describe him was hermit. He wasn’t that, either. Robert Indiana was an ass,” writes author Bob Keyes in “The Isolation Artist” (Godine; out Tuesday).

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