Overview
- An in-depth survey of the rise of Pop from the Beat era of the 1950s to the psychedelic late 1960s
- Includes founding artists of Pop art such as Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and many others
- Edited by internationally recognized expert on Pop art and its
cultural context, Mark Francis, together with an analysis of the Pop
image provided by renowned critic and scholar Hal Foster
- Providing coverage of American and European artworks as well as
film, photography and architecture, this is the most comprehensive
survey on Pop in all its forms
About the book
From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word 'Pop' described any
example of art, film, photography and architectural design that engaged
with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. In
addition to key artworks by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha,
Richard Hamilton and many others, this book includes works of
photography and avant-garde film, as well as what the critic Reyner
Banham defined as pop architecture, ranging from Alison and Peter
Smithson's House of the Future to Archigram's
Walking City and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's
Learning from Las Vegas.
Edited by an internationally recognized expert on Pop art and culture,
this book surveys Pop across all artforms and gives equal coverage to
its American, British and European manifestations
Survey: Renowned scholar and critic Hal Foster focuses on the Pop image
as it developed over the period: Reyner Banham, The Independent Group
and Pop Design; Richard Hamilton and the Tabular Image; Roy Lichtenstein
and the Screened Image; Andy Warhol and the Seamy Image; Gerhard
Richter and the Photogenic Image; Ed Ruscha and the Cineramic Image;
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and the Postmodern Absorption of Pop.
Works Each image is accompanied by an extended caption. This section is chronologically sequenced:
Revolt into Style (1956–60) surveys the birth of Pop culture and its
images, including the American Beat generation artists, photographers
and filmmakers; Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, the French
Decollageistes, Richard Hamilton and the ‘British Pop’ of the Independent Group.
Consumer Culture (1960–63) chronicles American Pop’s explosion, from Roy
Lichtenstein’s cartoon-based paintings to Claes Oldenburg's Store and
Andy Warhol's Factory.
Colonization of the Mind (1963–66) looks at American Pop's reception in
Europe, in the work of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and others.
Spectacular Time (1966–67) surveys late Pop developments, from Warhol's Silver Clouds to Malcolm Morley's Photorealism.
Helter Skelter (1968) documents Pop’s demise and transformation into
postmodernism, in projects such as Robert Venturi and Denise Scott
Brown’s
Learning from Las Vegas.
About the author(s)
Mark Francis is a London-based curator and writer. A director of
Gagosian Gallery, he was formerly Chief Curator of the Andy Warhol
Museum, Pittsburgh, and its Founding Director. In 2001 he directed and
edited the catalogue for the exhibition 'Les Années Pop', Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris.
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at
Princeton University and a former Senior Editor of Art in America. He is
the editor of
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (1983) and
Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics (1985), and the author of
Compulsive Beauty (1993) and
The Return of the Real (1996).
