| Description |
239 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Original edition: 1990 Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH |
| Contents |
Pop art : a moment in the Sixties -- Signs of the times : the themes of pop art -- The mass media and the arts -- Anonymity and subjectivity : the styles of pop art -- Pop art in Britain -- Pop art in America -- European aspects of pop art -- Retropective : the sources of pop art -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Jasper Johns -- Andy Warhol -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Claes Oldenburg -- Peter Blake -- Richard Hamilton -- David Hockney -- Afterword --Biographies -- Bibliography and list of illustrations |
| Summary |
"Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, and the role of the artist and artwork. Pop artists primary provocation was to defy ideas of the artistic canon or 'originality' by integrating mass market imagery into their works. Whether advertising slogans, famed Hollywood faces, comic strip style characters, or the packaging of consumer products, the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein knowingly reproduced mundane, everyday images from popular culture. At the same time, Pop Art reduced the role of the individual and challenged the notion of originality by deploying mass production techniques such as screen printing. Like a hall of mirrors, the resulting works came to interrogate both the ideas and desires of contemporary culture, and its state of simulacra, whereby images, substitutes, and representations come to define the experience of 'reality.' In this book, Tilman Osterwold explores the styles, sources, and stars of the Pop Art phenomenon. From Lichtenstein's comic book aesthetics to Warhol's images of Marilyn, it explores how a movement that interrogated the icons of its time came to produce icons of its own." -- |
| Language |
English translation: Iain Galbraith |
| Subject |
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
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Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997
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Johns, Jasper, 1930-
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Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987
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Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-
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Blake, Peter, 1920-2006
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Hockney, David, 1937-
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Hamilton, Richard, 1922-2011
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Pop art -- United States
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Pop art -- Great Britain
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Pop art -- Europe
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Art, American -- 20th century
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| Alt Author |
Galbraith, Iain
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| ISBN |
9783836520096 |
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