Pop art

Honnef, Klaus (author.). Grosenick, Uta, (editor.).

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. Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop Art also deployed methods of mass-production, reducing the role of the individual artist with mechanized techniques such as screen printing. With featured artists including Andy Warhol, Allan Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement.

Record details

ISBN: 9783836523370
ISBN: 383652337X
ISBN: 9783836519649
ISBN: 383651964X
Physical Description: print
95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Publisher: Köln : Taschen, [2018]
Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

General Note:	Original edition: 2004 Taschen GmbH.
Formatted Contents Note:	Pop art -- On the balcony / Peter Blake -- U.S. Highway 1, number 5/ Allan D'Arcangelo -- Double isometric self-portrait (Serape)/ Allan D'Arcangelo -- Hollywood (Jean Harlow)/ Red Grooms -- Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?/ Richard Hamilton -- My Marilyn (paste up)/ Richard Hamilton -- Tea painting in an illusionistic style/ David Hockney -- The big eight/ Robert Indiana -- Flag/ Jasper Johns -- Perfect match/ Allen Jones -- Takka takka/ Roy Lichtenstein -- M-maybe -- Yellow and green brushstrokes -- Pastry case I/ Claes Oldenburg -- Soft washstand/ Claes Oldenburg -- Giant fagends -- Lions versus eagles/ Peter Phillips -- Custom painting no. 5 -- Velveeta/ Mel Ramos -- Black market/ Robert Rauschenberg -- Untitled (Joan Crawford)/ James Rosenquist -- Standard station/ Edward Ruscha -- Hollywood -- Woman washing her feet in a sink/ George Segal -- The restaurant window I -- Cake counter/ Wayne Thiebaud -- 129 die in jet/ Andy Warhol -- Gold Marilyn Monroe -- Two dollar bills (front and rear) -- Campbell's soup can I -- Still life no. 20/ Tom Wesselmann -- Bathtub no. 3 -- Great American nude no. 98.
Language Note:	English translation: John Gabriel.