Pop Art

Taschen Basic Genre

by Klaus Honnef

Whaam! When the kitschy, banal, and mass-market became art Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Artbegan as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and ofwhat constituted an artwork.Focusing in on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, fromadvertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of suchpopular, banal, and kitschyimages, Pop Art also deployedmethods of mass-production, reducing the role of the singular artist with mechanized techniques such as screen printing.With featured artists includingAndy Warhol, Allan Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, andRoy Lichtenstein, this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre series features: approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions a detailed illustrated introduction plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, and social events that took place during that period a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist "

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, History, Art History

95 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Lillie Heaps · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very interesting, had lots of art included that wasn’t just Andy Warhol style, it has broadened my understanding of pop art and definitely inspired me! I did find it quite difficult to read, however that is probably because I am only 14. I also noticed there were no women included in this book except for as the subject of the art. And after some research I have found that there is no lack of female pop artists from the time period. The author has decided, whether consciously or not, to exclude any mention of the women who helped shape the pop art world as much as any man.

[Yael Matute Campos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este libro cambio completamente mi perspectiva sobre el Pop art. No conocía algunos de los artistas expuestos en el libro, entre ellos Edward Ruscha, Peter Phillips, Claes Oldernburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton. El trabajo de cada obra expuesta de los nombres anteriormente mencionados me pareció increíble y realmente veo la influencia de estos artistas en mis últimos trabajos. La calidad de las imágenes de las obras es excepcional y el tamaño del libro permite observar las obras a buen detalle.
Si buscas conocer más sobre este movimiento artístico y sus mayores exponentes, este libro te encantará.

[Wilde Sky · Rating 3 out of 5]

A discussion / description of a style of art.

I found this book difficult to get into and some of the pieces shown were bland / awful.

[Puri Marín díaz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bastante farragoso y sin estructura en la explicación. Contiene datos interesantes pero te deja con más dudas sobre el pop art que cuando lo empiezas

[Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Competent array of displays and explanations. A fair guide for people new to the scene.

[Juan David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es una lectura interesante y tipo divulgativa que se construye como introducción básica para comprender del Pop Art.