Pop Art

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Pop Art
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Lucy Lippard
SeriesWorld of Art
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:216
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 149
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780500200520
ClassificationsDewey:709.04
Audience
General
Undergraduate
Illustrations 170 Illustrations, black and white; 18 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 23 January 1967
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Pop Art embodied the spirit of the 1960s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic colour and giant scale, it was based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement standard appropriate to its time. Here several critics, each involved in Pop Art, but with different backgrounds, vividly bring the movement to life. Lucy Lippard examines Pop's precursors ranging from folk art, Surrealism and Dada, Stuart Davis and Leger, to the Reuben group, Assemblage, Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and discusses Pop Art in New York best known for Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg.

Author Biography

Lucy Lippard is an internationally known art critic, activist and curator. She received a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art in 2015.

Reviews

'It is difficult to see how the field of Pop Art could have been more successfully covered than it is in this volume' - Times Literary Supplement