Hip, edgy and irreverently funny, the art of Donny Miller builds a bridge between Lichtenstein and Raymond Pettibon. Illustrated by bold, iconic images paired with simple yet poetic lines of text, Donny Miller's pieces are both hilarious and poignant and will strongly appeal to the Urban Outfitters generation and hipsters of all ages. Working as ...
One of the most important figures in the art world of the 1960s, Andy Warhol was arguably the first celebrity artist. POPISM is Warhol's memoir of the time, and contains a number of different, often contradictory definitions of Pop art, a movement Warhol helped make famous as one of its most flamboyant leaders. Marked by a fascination with popular ...
Wayne Thiebaud has long been recognized as one of America's most prominent modern artists. Probably best known for his straightforward, deadpan, still-life paintings of the 1960s, Thiebaud is identified by his brilliant palette, his luscious handling of paint, and the intensity of light that lends a particularly California flavour to his images. ...
Pop Art embodied the spirit of the 1960s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic color 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 precursor ...
It's pop, "with a twist"--a fun collection of works by such 20th century masters as Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Hockney that turns the art world into a fingertip sensation. What could be better than pulling on the lettuce in Claes Oldenburg's Two Burgers with Everything? Or stroking the fluffy eyelashes on Warhol's pink-toned Marilyn? It's an ...
Michael Lobel looks behind Roy Lichtenstein's respectable and uncompromising image to find a conflicted artist whose work walked a tense line between the claims of the body and the claims of the machine.
"Everything is beautiful," raved Andy Warhol, in raptures at the glamour of modern life, consumer society, and the world of the media and its stars; his proclamation can be considered the maxim of the pop generation, which included artists Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, and ...
In this history of American pop art, former editor of ARTNEWS Steven Henry Madoff offers a selection of essays from leading art publications, which focus on Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and several other artists who contributed to the movement.
James Rosenquist's paintings, with their billboard-sized images of commercial subjects, are utterly emblematic of 1960s Pop Art. Their provocative imagery also touches on some of the major political and historical events of that turbulent decade - from the Kennedy assassination to the war in Vietnam. In the first full-length scholarly examination ...
This work aims to be the definitive monograph on Roy Lichtenstein, a founder of American Pop Art. It covers every phase of his career including: still lifes; landscapes; the "Brushstroke", "Modern", "Mirror", "Entablature" and "Interiors" series; sculptures; murals; and public commissions.
With paper punches, scissors tips and a "cutting-edge" imagination you can turn simple punched shapes into works of art. Decorate scrapbook pages, design one-of-a-kind picture frames and wall hangings, and create invitations, announcement cards and gifts with the help of this book.
The summer before college is a time of experimentation and growth. John tackles the pain and uncertainty that the end of childhood brings in a surprisingly minimalist, open-hearted, and empathetic style. Rejoicing in simple things while hiding from duplicity and complexity, John's portrayal of teenage alienation avoids sensationalism and irony. ...
In the latest addition to Abrams' successful line of picture book biographies, read about Roy Lichtenstein's long career as a teacher, artist and innovator, and how he changed the way that people thought about art. Classically trained in painting and drawing, Roy found inspiration from cartoons, newspaper comics and children's books - images most ...
This critical history of the Pop Art movement offers a clear perspective of the movement, with a fully documented chronology that unravels the sequence of events associated with the evolution of Pop in Britain, the USA and Europe.
An analysis of the early career of American Pop artist Robert Indiana. It examines his maturation as an artist in the 1950s, through the early 1970s and his famous LOVE paintings, showing how his work deals with rhetoric of the American Dream and his engagement with American literature and poetry.
The "Art Explorers[trademark]" series offers a new approach to learning art. Rather than emphasise historical information, these books encourage kids to describe and interpret what they see in famous artworks, then try some of the techniques themselves. Each book highlights 5-8 famous artists. For each artist, a colour reproduction of a famous ...
Charting the artist's rise, from poverty to wealth, from obscurity to status as a pop icon, the authors deliver an absorbing tale--one in which the American dream of fame and fortune is played out in all of its success and its excess.
Mass culture, popular taste and kitsch, considered outside the limits of fine art, were the provocative new themes of Pop art, a movement that enjoyed great prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s. Rejecting the idea that art and life could be separated, artists in both Britain and the United States - amongst them Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Roy ...
Published to accompany the first major exhibition of Jim Dine's (b. 1935) work from the 1960s, this book reproduces scores of never-before-seen mixed-media works, paintings, and sculpture by one of America's best-known image-makers. Many of the works featured in this volume contain elements of the now-familiar themes of Dine's career: tools, robes ...
Tejano artist Mondini-Ruiz creates intricate vignettes composed of a vast array of found objects. "High Pink" illustrates the meanings behind and within his installations with 56 often hilarious stories that illuminate the cultural divides and bonds that the artist faced during his Tex-Mex childhood.
Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of actual paintings, give children a light yet realistic overview of each artist's life and style in these fun and educational books.
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
