Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard
Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed
Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity
more intensely than they? In "The First Pop Age," leading critic
and historian Hal Foster presents an exciting new interpretation of
Pop art through the work of these Pop Five.
Beautifully illustrated in color throughout, the book reveals
how these seminal artists hold on to old forms of art while drawing
on new subjects of media; how they strike an ambiguous attitude
toward both high art and mass culture; and how they suggest that a
heightened confusion between images and people is definitive of Pop
culture at large.
As "The First Pop Age" looks back to the early years of Pop art,
it also raises important questions about the present: What has
changed in the look of screened and scanned images today? Is our
media environment qualitatively different from that described by
Warhol and company? Have we moved beyond the Pop age, or do we live
in its aftermath?
A masterful account of one of the most important periods of
twentieth-century art, this is a book that also sheds new light on
our complex relationship to images today.
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