Pop Art embodied the spirit of the 1960s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic colour and giant scale, it was based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement standard appropriate to its time.

Here several critics, each involved in Pop Art, but with different backgrounds, vividly bring the movement to life. Lucy Lippard examines Pop's precursors ranging from folk art, Surrealism and Dada, Stuart Davis and Leger, to the Reuben group, Assemblage, Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and discusses Pop Art in New York best known for Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg.

'A first rate short study of the subject' John Russell, Sunday Times

About the Author
Lucy Lippard is an internationally known art critic, activist and curator. She received a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art in 2015.

Reviews
'It is difficult to see how the field of Pop Art could have been more successfully covered than it is in this volume' - Times Literary Supplement



Book Information
ISBN 9780500200520
Author Lucy Lippard
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 460g