David Hockney (b 1937) has always been closely associated with Pop Art and California, where he has lived for much of his life. This study of his work redefines him as an important painter of the English countryside, addressing the artists place in the landscape tradition, his video works and their relationship to English landscape film-making.
Examines how certain artists, from Salvador Dali to Damien Hirst, have wholeheartedly embraced both the cult of celebrity and the commercial cut and thrust of the art market. This book examines those who have engaged directly with trading their own wares. It accompanies a major exhibition at Tate Modern.
On January 26, 1957, Richard Hamilton wrote a letter outlining his definition of what 'Pop Art Is'. This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Hamilton's prophetic document, presenting the works of more than forty artists from his own generation of Pop artists (among them Hamilton himself, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol).
Offers a tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. This book traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon.
Delivers a tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. This title traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon.
Looks at the world Warhol inhabited as a young man - a post-war America on the brink of mass commercialism and mass production - to examine his iconic paintings and prints. This book demonstrates how Warhol's fascination with pop culture meshed perfectly with a cultural mood, at once reflective and rebellious.
One of the world's best-known artists, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) exerts influence on contemporary art and culture. This book reveals Warhol's rags-to-riches life from his early years in Depression-era Pittsburgh to his success as an illustrator in New York City in the 1950s and his transformation into a notorious Pop Artist.
American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. This title looks closely at Celmins' early work, which is engaged with 'The Pop Art scene of 1960s Los Angeles'. It illustrates Celmins' work from the mid-1960s.
From the late 1950s to the late 1960s, the word Pop summed up everything in music, art, film, photography and architectural design that flowed from the seductive appeal of mass culture. Unlike books which present Pop art in isolation, this is a comprehensive survey of Pop in all of its forms across America, Britain and Europe.
Pop Art was one of the most revolutionary art movements of the 20th century. This book examines the formation and growth of the movement with selected examples from the style's most important exponents, such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg.
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. This book surveys Pop across the various artforms and gives coverage of Pop's American, British and European manifestations.
Pop Art remains one of the most accessible and popular movements in modern art. This work celebrates the masterpieces and leading artists of the pop art era. Packed with reproductions of the best known works, it includes Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and some of the most celebrated artists of this influential movement.
Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake (b.1932) has been one of the best-known artists of his generation. Peter Blake: one man show considers the artist's remarkable diversity, assessing his work across all media, from the 1950s to the present.
Pop Art by women dealt less with direct consumerist critiques, instead subversively combating the stereotypical perceptions of women via advertising and film cliches. This title offers a catalogue of the first exhibition to expand Pop Art's narrow critical definition to reflect the significant role of women artists.
Cv/VAR 104 reviews 'A Bigger Picture' by David Hockney, exhibited at The Royal Academy 21st January to 9th April 2012. The project of creating monumental landscape paintings was based on a small area near the artist's home at Bridlington in East Yorkshire. The project developed with time-framed films, i-pad works, drawings, sketchbooks, oils
Provides an interpretation of Pop art by examining five artists who capture the conditions of painting and subjectivity in the Pop age. This book explores the work of the Americans Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Ed Ruscha, the Englishman Richard Hamilton, and the German Gerhard Richter.
Brings to light the story of Lillian Colton, the crop artist extraordinaire - how she developed her matchless aesthetic by merging rural traditions from her childhood on a farm with a love of Hollywood movies, training as a hairstylist, and skills in drawing and painting - and the larger story of crop art as it has evolved over time.
Focuses on the semiotics, poetics and rhetoric of album covers. Working from the assumption that record sleeves may be found to represent a visual genre in its own right, this work features essays that engage in various ways with the analysis of what one might call the pictorial component of recorded music.
Andy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and, taken from ten years of extraordinary shots, his America aspires to the strange beauty and staggering contradictions of the country itself. An America without Warhol is almost as inconceivable as Warhol without America. This title offers a tribute to this great artist.
Best known of the British pop artists, Peter Blake came to fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s with iconic works like "On the Balcony" and "First Real Target". His famous works for album covers such as the Band Aid single "Do They Know Its Christmas", brought him to a wider audience. This title features the design work of Blake.
The Plastic Culture exhibition was held from 28 March to 30 May 2009. The exhibition looked at the visual and cultural impact of the Pop Art movement upon subsequent generations of artists in Japan, the UK and the USA. This illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Pop artist Peter Blake has an eye for the quirky and the overlooked. As well as being known as a painter, Blake is renowned for his works on paper and as a leading exponent of collage. This work displays the strong graphic sensibility and the love of popular culture for which the artist has long been renowned.