An in-depth survey of the rise of Pop from the Beat era of the 1950s to the psychedelic late 1960s
Charts the new style that flowed from the seductive messages and icons of mass culture
Includes its famous American and European artworks as well as film, photography and architecture, from Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless to Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning from Las Vegas
Edited by internationally recognized expert on Pop art and its cultural context, Mark Francis
In-depth analysis of the Pop image provided by renowned critic and scholar Hal Foster
Combines a major essay, many colour illustrations and a wide-ranging anthology of original documentsFrom 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.
This volume is an extensive and eclectic collection of original statements and interviews from established artists (often from rare or out of print sources), crucial writings by critics such as Reyner Banham, Donald Judd and Jonas Mekas and succinct extracts from key contextual writings, from Beat poetry to academic articles on Pop culture.
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
