Pop - Mark Francis

Specifikacia Pop - Mark Francis

From 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, RoyLichtenstein, 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'sWalking City and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning from Las Vegas. Edited by an internationally recognized expert onPop art and culture, this book surveys Pop across all artforms and gives equal coverage to its American, British and Europeanmanifestations. Survey: renowned scholar and critic Hal Fosterfocuses on the Pop image as it developed over the period: ReynerBanham, The Independent Group and Pop Design; Richard Hamilton and the Tabular Image; Roy Lichtenstein and the Screened Image; AndyWarhol and the Seamy Image; Gerhard Richter and the PhotogenicImage; Ed Ruscha and the Cineramic Image; and, Robert Venturi,Denise Scott Brown and the Postmodern Absorption of Pop. Works: each image is accompanied by an extended caption. This section is chronologically sequenced: Revolt into Style (1956-60) surveys the birth of Pop culture and its images, including the American Beat generation artists, photographers and filmmakers; Jasper Johns andRobert Rauschenberg, the French Decollageistes, Richard Hamilton and the 'British Pop' of the Independent Group. Consumer Culture (1960-63) chronicles American Pop's explosion, from RoyLichtenstein's cartoon-based paintings to Claes Oldenburg's Store and Andy Warhol's Factory. Colonization of the Mind (1963-66) looks at American Pop's reception in Europe, in the work of GerhardRichter, Sigmar Polke and others. Spectacular Time (1966-67) surveys late Pop developments, from Warhol's Silver Clouds toMalcolm Morley's Photorealism. Helter Skelter (1968) documentsPop's demise and transformation into postmodernism, in projects such as Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning from LasVegas.