Description
Price: $16.79
(as of Mar 17, 2025 05:20:40 UTC – Details)
Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork.
Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood’s most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop Art also deployed methods of mass-production, reducing the role of the individual artist with mechanized techniques such as screen printing.
With featured artists including Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHENs Basic Genre series features:
approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
a detailed, illustrated introduction
a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist
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Publisher : Taschen America Llc; Illustrated edition (December 9, 2015)
Language : English
Hardcover : 95 pages
ISBN-10 : 383652337X
ISBN-13 : 978-3836523370
Item Weight : 1.36 pounds
Dimensions : 8.27 x 0.55 x 10.24 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book visually appealing with nice graphics and coloring. They appreciate the informative content that provides background information and historical context. The book offers decent value for the price and feels expensive considering its low cost. Readers appreciate the glossy reproductions and great historical overview of the Pop Art movement.
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amy p. –
super cool
great conversation starter
Bryan Davis –
A Great Book Beyond Decor
Beyond its stylish cover and awesome imagery, the book has great context and material to give backstory and help aid and paint the full picture of how the Pop Art movement began, went, and continues. It names the big players, gives the names, events, and moments that leaves the reader able to do more research from there and get a foundational understanding of this Art history. Definitely deserving of reading as it is well written beyond just a book with lips for your coffee table.
Mel –
Love it
Beautiful coffee table book, and interesting too
Johnny –
Awesome Art Book
This is a great addition to my art book collection! ð
Banu –
Cute
As described. Works well as a coffee table book ð
Christi Marie –
Makes a great add to the coffee table
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Lab –
Love the series
Slight damage during shipping. I have ordered many books in the series & most arrive in perfect condition. This book had damage to one corner.
Chic.Interior.Design –
Chic
Adds a statement to any coffeetable love it. Good price too. Arrived in perfect condition no bent corners always a plus.
Malin Jansson –
Inte super stor
Cemar –
Perfetto e bellissimo per librerie o coffee table, da solo o insieme ad altri. Ottima qualitÃ
Eylem –
Es ist ein schönes Buch mit interessanten Seiten, allerdings nutze ich es als Deco. Das Buch war vorne verschmutzt weshalb es ein Stern weniger gibt.
Cliente de Amazon –
muy bonito,,, lo puse de decoración en la mesa de la sala y se ve muy bien!
Basak Sihir –
Bright colors, hardcover, slightly small but thats fine 5/5