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Pop Art Steven Henry Madoff

Pop Art By Steven Henry Madoff

Pop Art by Steven Henry Madoff


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A chronical of one of the most controversial art movements of the 20th century. A broad range of articles trace the emergence of the movement in England and America and then focus on the major pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol.

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Pop Art: A Critical History by Steven Henry Madoff

Pop Art: A Critical History chronicles one of the most controversial art movements of the century. The anthology draws from a great range of sources, from the leading art magazines and art historical journals to newspapers and news magazines such as the New York Times, Life, and Newsweek. What emerges from this rich cross-section of critical and journalistic commentary is a fascinating view of the tumultuous rise of Pop art and its establishment as a major force in contemporary art. A broad selection of articles traces the emergence of the movement itself in England and America, as seen through the eyes of the working critics of the day. The focus then narrows to present in-depth writings on the four major Pop artists: Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol, along with an examination of many other artists involved in the movement. From reviews of the very first shows of many of these artists to interviews with them, to news stories about their collectors and their lifestyles, Pop Art: A Critical History represents the most complete and coherent record of Pop art yet published. The book concludes with an invaluable chronology of the major '60s exhibitions by Pop artists. Among the contributors are Lawrence Alloway, John Coplans, Donald Judd, Max Kozloff, Gerald Nordland, Peter Plagens, Barbara Rose, Robert Rosenblum, John Russell, Gene Swenson, and Sidney Tillim.

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"To understand where we are in American art, we need Pop Art: A Critical History to remind us of where we were. Thorough and as lively as the era it documents, Steven Henry Madoff's indispensable compendium neatly recaptures a moment that irrevocably altered American culture." * New York Times *
"This not-to-be-missed anthology collects stimulating articles, interviews, and other texts defining 'the phenomenon of Pop.' Art critic Madoff contributes a fine introductory overview and then presents 94 critical articles, negative and positive, on this brash, vulgar, successful style." * Library Journal *

About Steven Henry Madoff

Steven Henry Madoff is a widely published art critic and former executive editor of ARTnews magazine. He is currently an editor at Time Inc. New Media.

Table of Contents


List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION
Steven Henry Madoff, Wham! Blam! How Pop Art Stormed the
High-Art Citadel and What the Critics Said

1 PRE-POP: AMERICAN PRECURSORS, ENGLISH CURRENTS
Frank OHara, from Larry Rivers: Why I Paint as I Do
Alison and Peter Smithson, But Today We Collect Ads
Richard Hamilton, Letter to Peter and Alison Smithson
Lawrence Alloway, The Arts and the Mass Media
Thomas B. Hess, Mixed Mediums for a Soft Revolution
Robert Rosenblum, Jasper Johns
Clement Greenberg, from After Abstract Expressionism
Jasia Reichardt, Pop Art and After
Alan R. Solomon, from Robert Rauschenberg

2 THE PHENOMENON OF POP:
GENERAL ESSAYS AND LOCAL REVIEWS, 19621970
Sidney Tillim, from Month in Review: New York Exhibitions
Max Kozloff, Pop Culture, Metaphysical Disgust, and the New Vulgarians
Jules Langsner, from Los Angeles Letter
G. R. Swenson, The New American Sign Painters
Sidney Janis, On the Theme of the Exhibition
Brian ODoherty, Art: Avant-Garde Revolt
John Coplans, The New Painting of Common Objects
Gilbert Sorrentino, Kitch into Art: The New Realism
Barbara Rose, Dada, Then and Now
Peter Selz et al, A Symposium on Pop Art
Barbara Rose, Pop Art at the Guggenheim
Peter Selz, The Flaccid Art
Ivan C. Karp, Anti-Sensibility Painting
Alan R. Solomon, The New Art
John Coplans, Pop Art, USA
Thomas B. Hess, from Pop and Public
G.R. Swenson, What Is Pop Art? Part I
G.R. Swenson, from What Is Pop Art? Part II
John Canaday, Pop Art Sells On and On Why?
Tullia Zevi, The Biennale: How Evil is Pop Art?
Max Kozloff, Dissimulated Pop
Unsigned, Pop Art Exhibited, and Its Crazy, Dad
Robert Rosenblum, Pop Art and Non-Pop Art
Sidney Tillim, Further Observations on the Pop Phenomenon
Bruce Glaser, Oldenburg, Lichtenstein, Warhol: A Discussion
Peter Benchley, Special Report: The Story of Pop,
John Adkins Richardson, Dada, Camp, and the Mode Called Pop
Dana Adams Schmidt, London Court Fines a Gallery for
Indecent Pop-Art Display
Peter Plagens, Present-Day Styles and Ready-Made Criticism
Lawrence Alloway, Popular Culture and Pop Art
John Russell, Pop Reappraised
Harold Rosenberg, The Art World: Marilyn Mondrian

3 FOCUS: THE MAJOR ARTISTS
Roy Lichtenstein
Unsigned, Everything Clear Now?
Donald Judd, In the Galleries: Roy Lichtenstein
Robert Rosenblum, Roy Lichtenstein and the Realist Revolt
Douglas McClellan, Roy Lichtenstein, Ferus Gallery
Dorothy Seiberling, Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?
John Ashbery, Pop Artist Switches to Aggressive Neutral Banality
John Coplans, Talking with Roy Lichtenstein
Albert Boime, Roy Lichtenstein and the Comic Strip
Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg, Statement
Michael Fried, New York Letter
Jill Johnston, Off Off-Broadway; Happenings at Ray Gun Mfg. Co.
Ellen H. Johnson, The Living Object
Gerald Nordland, from Marcel Duchamp and
Common Object Art
Donald Judd, In the Galleries: Claes Oldenburg
Oyvind Fahlstrom, Object-Making

Barbara Rose, Claes Oldenburgs Soft Machines
Richard Kostelanetz, from Claes Oldenburg
James Rosenquist
Gene R. Swenson, Reviews and Previews:
New Names This Month: James Rosenquist
Edward F. Fry, essay from exhibition catalogue, James Rosenquist
William Wilson, Los Angeles: James Rosenquist
Lucy R. Lippard, James Rosenquist: Aspects of a Multiple Art
Doon Arbus, The Man in the Paper Suit
Hilton Kramer, A New Hangar for Rosenquists Jet-Pop F-111
Robert C. Scull, Re the F-111: A Collectors Notes
Sidney Tillim, Rosenquist at the Met: Avant-Garde or Red Guard?
Lawrence Alloway, Art
Andy Warhol
Henry T. Hopkins, Andy Warhol, Ferus Gallery
Michael Fried, from New York Letter
Donald Judd, In the Galleries: Andy Warhol
Arthur Danto, The Artworld
Unsigned, Saint Andrew
Thomas B. Hess, Reviews and Previews:
New Names this Month: Andy Warhol
Roger Vaughan, Superpop or a Night at the Factory
David Antin, Warhol: The Silver Tenement
William Wilson, Prince of Boredom: The Repetitions and
Passivities of Andy Warhol
John Coplans, Early Warhol: The Systematic Evolution
of the Impersonal Style

4 FROM CENTER TO PERIPHERY: OTHER FIGURES
Allan DArcangelo
Vivien Raynor, In the Galleries: Allan DArcangelo
Nicolas Calas, Highways & By-ways
Jim Dine
Alan R. Solomon, Jim Dine and the Psychology of the New Art
Robert Pincus-Witten, New York: Jim Dine
oyvind Fahlstrom
Torsten Ekbom, Oyvind Fahlstrom: Models of Shattered Reality
Robert Indiana
G. R. Swenson, The Horizons of Robert Indiana
Jan van der Marck, foreword from exhibition catalogue, Robert Indiana
Mel Ramos
Jay Jacobs, In the Galleries: Mel Ramos
Robin Skelton, The Art of Mel Ramos
Edward Ruscha
Nancy Marmer, Edward Ruscha, Ferus Gallery
John Coplans, Concerning Various Small Fires:
Edward Ruscha Discusses His Perplexing Publications
George Segal
Allan Kaprow, Segals Vital Mummies
John Perreault, Plaster Caste
Peter Saul
Jack Kroll, Reviews and Previews:
New Names this Month: Peter Saul
Ellen H. Johnson, essay from exhibition catalogue, Peter Saul
Wayne Thiebaud
Thomas B. Hess, Reviews and Previews:
New Names this Month: Wayne Thiebaud
Diane Waldman, Thiebaud: Eros in Cafeteria
John Wesley
Donald Judd, In the Galleries: John Wesley
Tom Wesselmann
Brian ODoherty, Pop Show by Tom Wesselmann Is Revisited
J. A. Abramson, Tom Wesselmann and the Gates of Horn

5 REVISING POP: LATER CRITICAL REFLECTIONS
Max Kozloff, American Painting during the Cold War
Roland Barthes, That Old Thing, Art . . .
Robert Hughes, The Rise of Andy Warhol
Lynne Cooke, from The Independent Group:
British and American Pop Art, a Palimpcestuous Legacy
Bruce Altshuler, from Pop Triumphant: A New Realism

CHRONOLOGY
An Exhibitions Chronicle: 19581970,
Steven Henry Madoff and Alexandra Muse

INDEX

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GOR005953461
9780520212435
0520212436
Pop Art: A Critical History by Steven Henry Madoff
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University of California Press
1997-11-15
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