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Pop Art: A Continuing History

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Pop Art: A Continuing History
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Marco Livingstone
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 280
Category/GenreArt and design styles - Pop art
ISBN/Barcode 9780500282403
ClassificationsDewey:709.04071
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
General
Illustrations 66 Illustrations, black and white; 300 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 9 October 2000
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Pop art brilliantly blended the banal and the mythic to become the most genuinely popular movement in modern art. Marco Livingstone charts the international development of Pop from its origins in the 1950s to the present day, exploring the work of more than 130 artists in this lavishly illustrated and comprehensive survey. Pop's total openness of attitude to subject matter, style and technique overturned the traditional dichotomies between high and low art, just as it questioned the idea that representation and abstraction were necessarily at odds with each other. Pop Art shows how the major artists of the movement - including Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist and Warhol - sustained great inventiveness in their work and assesses how Pop inspired a younger generation of artists, including Haring, Koons, Opie and Salle. Pop Art is both a sparkling celebration and the most authoritative, complete account of one of the wittiest and most appealing movements in 20th-century art.

Author Biography

Marco Livingstone is an art historian and independent curator, with numerous publications on Pop Art, David Hockney, Patrick Caulfield, R B Kitaj, Allen Jones, Paula Rego, Jim Dine, Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Duane Michals, Peter Kinley and many others.