Pop Art

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Movements in ModerrÄrt

This series provides the most authoritative and accessibie introductions availabie to the itey art movements of the past 150 years.
Mass culture, popular taste and kitsch, previously considered outside the limits of fine art, were the inspiration and provocative themes of Pop art, a movement that enjoyed great prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s. Rejecting the idea that art and life could be separated, artists In both Britain and the United States - among them Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenqulst and Andy Warhol - used mass-produced objects and photographic images to make a blatant connection between art and the post-war world of consumerism.
This study follows the development of Pop, from Its roots in the Irreverence of Dada and
Surrealism, to its rise in popularity as an art form that celebrated the glamour and hedonism of the newly commercialised Westem world, whilst acknowledging its superficiality and transience.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Movements in ModerrÄrt

This series provides the most authoritative and accessibie introductions availabie to the itey art movements of the past 150 years.
Mass culture, popular taste and kitsch, previously considered outside the limits of fine art, were the inspiration and provocative themes of Pop art, a movement that enjoyed great prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s. Rejecting the idea that art and life could be separated, artists In both Britain and the United States - among them Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenqulst and Andy Warhol - used mass-produced objects and photographic images to make a blatant connection between art and the post-war world of consumerism.
This study follows the development of Pop, from Its roots in the Irreverence of Dada and
Surrealism, to its rise in popularity as an art form that celebrated the glamour and hedonism of the newly commercialised Westem world, whilst acknowledging its superficiality and transience.
David McCarthy is Associate Professor of History of Art at Rhodes College, l\Aemphis
Also available in this series: Abstract Art Mel Gooding Conceptual Art Paul Wood Cubism
David Cottington Expressionism Shulamlth Behr Futurism
Richard Humphreys
Minimalism David Batchelor Modemism Charies Harrison Post-impressionism Belinda Thomson Postmodemism Eleanor Heartney Realism James Malpas Surrealism Fiona Bradley
General Editor: Simon Wilson Vissza