Pop Art Av Klaus Honnef

<p>Peaking in the 1960s, <strong>Pop Art </strong> 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 <strong>what constituted an artwork</strong>.<br/><br/> Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from <strong>advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products</strong>, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such <strong>popular, banal, and kitschy </strong>images, Pop Art also deployed <strong>methods of mass-production</strong>, reducing the role of the individual artist with mechanized techniques such as screen printing.<br/><br/> With featured artists including <strong>Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, </strong>and<strong> Roy Lichtenstein,</strong> this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement.</p>