Pop art / Tilman Osterwold

Object Details

Notes
Original edition: 1990 Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH.
Contents
Pop art : a moment in the Sixties -- Signs of the times : the themes of pop art -- The mass media and the arts -- Anonymity and subjectivity : the styles of pop art -- Pop art in Britain -- Pop art in America -- European aspects of pop art -- Retropective : the sources of pop art -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Jasper Johns -- Andy Warhol -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Claes Oldenburg -- Peter Blake -- Richard Hamilton -- David Hockney -- Afterword --Biographies -- Bibliography and list of illustrations
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. Pop artists primary provocation was to defy ideas of the artistic canon or 'originality' by integrating mass market imagery into their works. Whether advertising slogans, famed Hollywood faces, comic strip style characters, or the packaging of consumer products, the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein knowingly reproduced mundane, everyday images from popular culture. At the same time, Pop Art reduced the role of the individual and challenged the notion of originality by deploying mass production techniques such as screen printing. Like a hall of mirrors, the resulting works came to interrogate both the ideas and desires of contemporary culture, and its state of simulacra, whereby images, substitutes, and representations come to define the experience of 'reality.' In this book, Tilman Osterwold explores the styles, sources, and stars of the Pop Art phenomenon. From Lichtenstein's comic book aesthetics to Warhol's images of Marilyn, it explores how a movement that interrogated the icons of its time came to produce icons of its own." -- Amazon.com
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
2015
20th century
author
Osterwold, Tilman
translator
Galbraith, Iain
Subject
Rauschenberg, Robert 1925-2008
Lichtenstein, Roy 1923-1997
Johns, Jasper 1930-
Warhol, Andy 1928-1987
Oldenburg, Claes 1929-
Blake, Peter 1920-2006
Hockney, David
Hamilton, Richard 1922-2011
Type
Books
History
Physical description
239 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm
Place
United States
Great Britain
Europe
Topic
Pop art
Art, American
Record ID
siris_sil_1056283
Usage
CC0