Pop Art Portraits - Hardcover
The book examines these artists' shared engagement with depicting the famous, using images taken from advertising, pop music, the cinema and the press. It demonstrates how Pop Art shattered the conventions of portraiture, creating a new genre of fantasy portraits that repositioned popular culture as art. Pop Art defined the look of the 1960s. Blurring the boundaries between high' and 'low' culture was seen as subversive, but it also had rapid, widespread appeal. Pop Art elevated portraiture to a new, pre-eminent position. It focused on the individual, creating an art with genuine popular appeal: about people and for people. British and American Pop were closely connected, but they also differed in terms of context, character and imagery.Author Paul Moorhouse explores Pop Art's complex and enormously creative engagement with portraiture from the early 1950s to its heyday and maturity in the 1960s. He compares examples of American and British Pop and shows how artists from both countries interconnected and differed, particularly in the context of their shared obsession with Marilyn Monroe. The focus on the Marilyn images also illustrates one of the principal themes of the book: the way Pop portraits transformed familiar images in order to create works of art of great technical virtuosity, lasting originality and enduring fascination.It is published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London: 11 October 2007-20 January 2008 and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 23 February-8 June 2008.
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Paul Moorhouse is Curator of Twentieth Century Art at the National Portrait Gallery. His exhibitions include Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, Bridget Riley, Anthony Caro and John Latham. Recent publications include Richard Long - Walking the Line; John Virtue - Images of London and John Latham in focus. Dominic Sandbrook is a freelance historian and Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. He is the author of two books on Britain in the 1960s, Never Had It So Good and White Heat.
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- PublisherNational Portrait Gallery Publications
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 185514378X
- ISBN 13 9781855143784
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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Book Description HARDCOVER. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Large heavy 4to. in bright green boards, black lettering to spine, 191pp on stiff paper, colour plates, illustrations in text, etc. Eight of the artists shown at this important exhibition attended the opening night: Allen Jones; Mel Ramos; Joe Tilson; Colin Self; Gerald Laing; Peter Blake; Richard Smith; and Richard Hamilton. This book was signed by all of them, in ink on the front blank fly-leaf and is testament to a very remarkable and now, alas, unrepeatable event CONDITION: Aside from a tiny bump to the bottom corner tip of the front cover this book is an AS NEW unread copy in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket ] __NOTE Due to size, weight or for insurance purposes delivery to some destinations outside the UK may cost more than the shipping price shown above. Orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS. Seller Inventory # TH219780
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