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Pop Art - a movement that first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism. British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express formal abstract relationships. By this means they provided a meeting ground where artist and layman could come to terms with art


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    Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism » Read Now

    by Sylvia Harrison. 280 pgs.

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    Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism examines the critical reception of Pop Art in America during the 1960s. Comparing the ideas of New York-based critics such as Leo Steinberg, Susan Sontag, and Max Kozloff, Sylvia Harrison demonstrates how their ideas bear a striking similarity to the body of...
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    On Modern American Art: Selected Essays ("Pop Art and Non-Pop Art 1965" begins on p. 186) » Read Now

    by Robert Rosenblum. 386 pgs.

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    Robert Rosenblum is a critic, curator and art historian, whose writings helped establish the reputations of Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. In this collection he explores the meanings, movements and paradoxes of 20th-century American art.
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    Fluxus Experience (Chap. 3 "Experience in Context: Fluxus, Happenings, Conceptual, and Pop Art") » Read Now

    by Hannah Higgins. 259 pgs.

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    "Higgins bravely argues for the experiential, life-affirming qualities of Fluxus, combining theory and practice in a most sophisticated, engaging, and refreshing manner. She situates Fluxus in the context of American art history as well as international art practices, while exploring sense-related...
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    Art in the Age of Mass Media ("Pop Art Translates Mass Culture" begins on p. 22 and "American Pop" begins on p. 31) » Read Now

    by John A. Walker. 200 pgs.

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    ...Popular Imagery 15 Pop Art Translates Mass Culture 22...Pop 31 Formalism in Pop Art 35 The Politics of...values in their painting styles. Pop Art Translates Mass Culture...
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    Sculpture since 1945 ("Pop Art" begins on p. 100) » Read Now

    by Andrew Causey. 304 pgs.

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    Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and even the term sculpture has ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In Sculpture Since 1945, Andrew Causey provides a ground-breaking account of the development of post-War sculpture. In over 130 beautiful illustrations...
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    Cultural Revolution? The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s ("Pop Art, the Artist, and the Tradition" begins on p. 258) » Read Now

    by Bart Moore-Gilbert, John Seed. 292 pgs.

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    An ideal guide to British arts and culture of the 1960s which challenges many popular myths about this 'swinging decade'.
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    British Culture: An Introduction ("Pop Art" begins on p. 162) » Read Now

    by David Christopher. 224 pgs.

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    British Culture: An Introduction provides a comprehensive introduction to central aspects of culture and the arts in Britain today, and uses a factual approach to place them within a clear, historical context.Topics include:* the social and cultural setting: politics and society 1950-1999...
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    One Hundred Years of Art in Israel (Chap. 12 "Ten Plus: Pop Art and the Americanization of Israel, 1965-1970") » Read Now

    by Gideon Ofrat, Peretz Kidron. 394 pgs.

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    One Hundred Years of Art in Israel brings the rich legacy of Israeli art to a Western audience for the first time. Gideon Ofrat, Israel's premier curator, art critic, & art historian, traces the complete history of art in Israel, from the nineteenth-century Jewish folk art in Ottoman Palestine to...
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    A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ("Pop Art" begins on p. 484) » Read Now

    by Ian Chilvers. 670 pgs.

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    From Renoir and Picasso to Red Grooms and Guerrilla Girls, this is the most useful reference work on twentieth-century art available in a one volume. Compiled by Ian Chilvers, the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Art, it is both authoritative and accessible, with generous use of anecdote and clear...

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