Pop Art *ePub
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, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising 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 such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop Art also deployed methods of mass-production, reducing the role of the individual artist with mechanized techniques such as screen printing. With featured artists including Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art History series features: approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions a detailed, illustrated introduction a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist Read more
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Why Must Read Pop Art?
I bought this to use as a coffee table book. I love pop art and loved the front cover. The book is a good size, not too big, not too small. It's not super thick, it's thin, but the quality of the pages is great. I love all of the art displayed inside the book, it's great to flip through while sitting on the couch (if you like that kind of stuff) I gave it 4 stars because I wish the front cover displayed was a hard cover, it is just a paper slip covering the plain hard cover. To me, the best part of the book is the front cover so I get worried if it rips/tears that I will be left with just a plain book. Overall, I was happy with my purchase and it looks great on my coffee table!
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