Author: MOORHOUSE, PAUL
Title: Pop art portraits / Paul Moorhouse ; with an essay by Dominic Sandbrook
Description: New Haven. CT : Yale University Press (c2007) 2007. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective wrapping.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 191 pages; Physical description. : 191 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 29 cm. Subject: Pop art - United States - Exhibitions. Pop art - England - Exhibitions. Portraits - History - 20th century - Exhibitions. Summary: 'Pop Art Portraits is the first publication to explore the role and significance of portraiture within Pop Art. Conceived as a visual dialogue between American and British Pop. it brings together key works by major Pop artists working on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s and 1960s. The book examines the shared preoccupation of these artists with depicting the famous. using images taken from popular culture - advertising. pop music. the cinema. magazines and newspapers. And it shows how Pop Art shattered the conventions of portraiture. creating a new genre of fantasy portraits. Pop Art elevated portraiture to a new. pre-eminent position. Blurring the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture. it focused on the individual. creating an art with genuine popular appeal.' 'Curator and 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 shows how British and American Pop were closely linked. and also how they differed in terms of context. character and their treatment of imagery. The focus on Marilyn Monroe by artists such as Andy Warhol. Richard Hamilton. Richard Smith. Pauline Boty. Allan D'Arcangelo. Robert Indiana and Claes Oldenburg underscores one of the book's principal themes: the way in which Pop Art portraits transformed familiar images to create works of art of technical virtuosity. striking originality and enduring fascination.'.Weight in Kg appr.:

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