Pop art : a critical history

Madoff, Steven Henry. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 9780520210189 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780520212435 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520210182 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520212436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xx, 420 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- from "Larry Rivers: 'Why I Paint as I Do'" / Frank O'Hara -- "But Today We Collect Ads" / Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson -- "Letter to Peter and Alison Smithson" / Richard Hamilton -- "The Arts and the Mass Media" / Lawrence Alloway -- "Mixed Mediums for a Soft Revolution" / Thomas B. Hess -- "Jasper Johns" / Robert Rosenblum -- from "After Abstract Expressionism" / Clement Greenberg -- "Pop Art and After" / Jasia Reichardt -- from "Robert Rauschenberg" / Alan R. Solomon -- 2. Phenomenon of Pop: General Essays and Local Reviews, 1962-1970 -- from "Month in Review: New York Exhibitions" / Sidney Tillim -- "'Pop' Culture, Metaphysical Disgust, and the New Vulgarians" / Max Kozloff -- from "Los Angeles Letter" / Jules Langsner -- "The New American 'Sign Painters'" / G. R. Swenson -- "On the Theme of the Exhibition" / Sidney Janis -- "Art: Avant-Garde Revolt" / Brian O'Doherty -- "The New Painting of Common Objects" / John Coplans -- "Kitch into 'Art': The New Realism" / Gilbert Sorrentino -- "Dada, Then and Now" / Barbara Rose -- "A Symposium on Pop Art" / Peter Selz et al -- "Pop Art at the Guggenheim" / Barbara Rose -- "The Flaccid Art" / Peter Selz -- "Anti-Sensibility Painting" / Ivan C. Karp -- "The New Art" / Alan R. Solomon -- "Pop Art, USA" / John Coplans -- from "Pop and Public" / Thomas B. Hess -- "What Is Pop Art? Part I" / G. R. Swenson -- "What Is Pop Art? Part II" / G. R. Swenson -- "Pop Art Sells On and On - Why?" / John Canaday -- "The Bienuale: How Evil is Pop Art?" / Tullia Zevi -- "Dissimulated Pop" / Max Kozloff -- "Pop Art Exhibited, and It's Crazy, Dad" / Unsigned -- "Pop Art and Non-Pop Art" / Robert Rosenblum -- "Further Observations on the Pop Phenomenon" / Sidney Tillim -- "Oldenburg, Lichtenstein, Warhol: A Discussion" / Bruce Glaser -- "Special Report: The Story of Pop" / Peter Benchley -- "Dada, Camp, and the Mode Called Pop" / John Adkins Richardson -- "London Court Fines a Gallery for 'Indecent' Pop-Art Display" / Dana Adams Schmidt -- "Present-Day Styles and Ready-Made Criticism" / Peter Plagens -- "Popular Culture and Pop Art" / Lawrence Alloway -- "Pop Reappraised" / John Russell -- "The Art World: Marilyn Mondrian" / Harold Rosenberg --