Pop

by Hal Foster (contributor), Mark Francis (editor)

De 1956 1968, l'avnement du Pop a remis radicalement en cause les frontires sparant, d'un ct, la culture populaire, le vernaculaire, le quotidien et, de l'autre, l'esthtique couramment admise dans l'art, la photographie, le cinma et l'architecture. Le Pop, qui n'est ni un mouvement, ni un simple groupe d'artistes, ni un style, ne se limite pas l'art auquel il a donn naissance. Pour le dfinir, l'artiste britannique Richard Hamilton, en 1957, renvoie la description des secteurs de la culture de masse qui allaient monopoliser l'attention des crateurs visuels de la dcennie suivante : les bandes dessines, les biens de consommation, la publicit, les magazines, les films et les stars du cinma. Cet ouvrage examine l'image Pop telle qu'elle a t labore par les artistes les plus influents de l'poque, ainsi que le travail des photographes, cinastes et architectes qui, paralllement, ont fait voluer leurs propres domaines dans un sens identique. Recouvrant la cration tant amricaine qu'europenne, ce panorama du Pop est le plus complet offert ce jour au lecteur.

Genres: Art, Art History

204 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

About the author

Hal Foster is a Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University specializing in 20th century art.

Note: for the comic book artist, see Harold "Hal" Foster.

Reviews

[Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Did you ever wonder where the pop in pop art came from? I always assumed that it was because it dealt with popular images like advertising, comics and soup cans. But that is because my image of pop art was ethno-centrically American. I did not realize that the Europeans especially the British got there first. The first important pop artwork was by a British artist, Richard Hamilton and featured a brawny body builder dressed in no more than underpants and a strategically placed giant Tootsie Pop. There you have it: Pop Art is descended from a Tootsie Pop.
Mark Francis is or was British based and Pop is a breath of fresh air. There are many fine coffee table books on Pop Art. This one is distinguished by its openness and its breadth. It places Pop Art within the history of European painting with Cubist Collages and many European contributors to Pop Art. In American it includes Joseph Cornell, Joseph Stella, the filmmaker Bruce Conner and Robert Indiana. As one who lived thru the sixties, this book brought back many long forgotten memories and gave context to the big names Warhol and Lichtenstein
If you like Pop Art but have not read anything on it recently, you will enjoy POP immensely.