Pop

Description

From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word Pop described art, film, photography and architectural design which engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. Unlike books which present Pop art in isolation, this is a comprehensive survey of Pop in all its forms across America, Britain and Europe. In addition to the key artworks by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton, Sigmar Polke, Martial Raysse and many others the 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. Editor Mark Francis was former Founding Director of the Andy Warhol Museum and editor of Les Annees Pop (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2001). Survey author Hal Foster is Professor of Art at Princeton University, author of The Return of the Real and editor of the bestselling The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture and Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics.

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. He has been the curator of major exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, where in 2001 he edited the catalogue for 'Les Annees Pop'. He is the author of numerous essays and catalogues on artists including Richard Hamilton, Dan Graham, Douglas Gordon, Andy Warhol, and the Situationist International Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. A Founding Editor of the journal October, he is the author of Compulsive Beauty, The Return of the Real and Prosthetic Gods (MIT Press, 1993; 1996; 2004) and editor of The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture and Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics (Bay Press, 1983; 1985; reissued by The New Press). A former Senior Editor of Art in America, he has contributed to numerous periodicals including Zone magazine, Diacritics, Documents and Artforum

'The many strengths of this absorbing, eclectically detailed survey are concentrated most in the cultural historical networking that is achieved between image and text. What results is in part a luxurious and luxuriating immersion in the sheer visual gorgeousness of much Pop material, and in part a digest and directory of Pop's great works, sources and related texts - Pop's greatest hits, so to speak. - Pop art ought never to be consigned to some ever-expanding repertoire of stylish retro-aesthetics. It is the cultural link between Surrealism and Postmodernism, and often made statements about the modern world that have yet to be improved, or updated.' Michael Bracewell, Art Monthly, November 2006 'Modern art and design continues to fillet the movement once known as Pop, so Phaidon's new monograph is a timely look back - Pop has it all, not just the iconic big-name images - Editor Mark Francis [ - ] has dug a little deeper and drawn together film, photography and even architecture' Wallpaper*, December 2005