"It is difficult to see how the field of Pop Art could have been more successfully covered than it is in this volume." —The Times Literary Supplement
Pop Art embodied
the spirit of the 1960s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic
color and giant scale, it was based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement
standard appropriate to its time. Here several critics, each involved
in Pop Art, but with different backgrounds, vividly bring the movement
to life. Lucy Lippard examines Pop's precursor and related styles, ranging
from folk art, Surrealism and Dada, to Assemblage, Rauschenberg and
Jasper Johns. Lawrence Alloway contributes a chapter on the development
of pop in England; Nancy Marmer considers Californian pop; Nicolas Calas,
a member of the Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s assesses Pop icons.
"A first-rate short study of the subject." —John Russell, The Sunday Times, London
Pop Art embodied
the spirit of the 1960s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic
color and giant scale, it was based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement
standard appropriate to its time. Here several critics, each involved
in Pop Art, but with different backgrounds, vividly bring the movement
to life. Lucy Lippard examines Pop's precursor and related styles, ranging
from folk art, Surrealism and Dada, to Assemblage, Rauschenberg and
Jasper Johns. Lawrence Alloway contributes a chapter on the development
of pop in England; Nancy Marmer considers Californian pop; Nicolas Calas,
a member of the Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s assesses Pop icons.