Pop art: a continuing history

Uittreksel

This comprehensive and critical history of pop art charts its international development, and describes and illustrates the work of over 130 artists, including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Peter Blake, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein.

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Introduction: pre-pop -- Coca-Cola plan: Johns, Rauschenberg and American prototypes of pop in the 1950s -- Just what is it?: the Independent Group and Peter Blake -- Bourgeois trash: nouveau réalisme and precursors of pop in Europe -- Look Mickey: American pop, 1960-62 -- The artist thinks: the Royal College of Art, 1959-63 -- 192 one-dollar bills: American pop, 1962-4 -- Moderne Kunst: European pop, 1960s and after -- Random illusion: British pop from the 1960s to the 1980s -- Extinguished match: American pop, 1965 and after -- Eat dirt art history: neo-pop in the 1980s.