Pop Art Us/Uk Connections

by Brauer, David E.; Edwards, Jim; Finch, Christopher; Hopps, Walter

• ISBN13: 9783775710237
• ISBN10: 377571023X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Pop Art: US/UK Connections 1956-1966examines the critical transatlantic cultural exchange that led to the decade-long development of classic Pop Art. This publication explores the impact on British and American artists of post-World War II American popular culture as disseminated in the mass media of film, recorded music, advertising and television. While Pop Art drew its influences from many sources, include abstract and figurative modes in painting and advertising, assemblage, and early happenings, it is these mass cultural influences that are the most crucial. The main emphasis of the book is on the resultant ''pure'' aspects of Pop--its hard-edged imagery and its use of photographic media and reproduction processes. Pop Art: US/UK Connections 1956-1966is the first major American publication focusing on how a dialogue between British and American artists provided the genesis of Pop Art. Many readers will be surprised by this full account of the complex history of Pop Art, which involved a series of successive developments, first in London and subsequently in New York and Los Angeles. Featuring extensive documentation of works from all of Pop Art's major figures--British and American, famous and less well-known--Pop Art: US/UK Connections 1956-1966also presents essential essays and interviews devoted to all things Pop.

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition	12	(13)
Foreword and Acknowledgments	13	(3)
Ned Rifkin
Introduction	16	(4)
David E. Brauer
Jim Edwards
London Pop Recollected	20	(22)
Christopher Finch
New Painting of Common Objects	42	(12)
Walter Hopps
Jim Edwards
British Pop Art: 1956-1966 A Documentary Essay	54	(34)
David E. Brauer
The Confluence of East and West Coast Pop	88	(22)
Jim Edwards
Plates and Catalogue Commentary	110	(116)
American Entries
Jim Edwards
British Entries
David E. Brauer
U.S./U.K. Chronology: 1956-1966	226	(24)
American Chronology
Jim Edwards
British Chronology
David E. Brauer
Selected Bibliography	250	(4)
Index	254