To describe Kenneth Anger as a “cult filmmaker” seems requisite but incomplete. It is the cultural link between Surrealism and Postmodernism, and often made statements about the modern world that have yet to be improved, or updated.MY DREAMS ARE, LIKE, BIG BUDGET, AND MY MOVIES ARE SMALL BUDGET. Pop art ought never to be consigned to some ever-expanding repertoire of stylish retro-aesthetics. What results is in part a luxurious and luxuriating immersion in the sheer visual gorgeousness of much Pop material, and in part a digest and directory of Pop's great works, sources and related texts - Pop's greatest hits, so to speak. 'The many strengths of this absorbing, eclectically detailed survey are concentrated most in the cultural historical networking that is achieved between image and text. It's a formula that should ensure that this book is one of the essential reference works on the Pop-art era.'- Mark Rappolt, Modern Painters Divided into three sections - the survey by Hal Foster, a gazetteer of works and a selection of contemporary documents - this book could replace a whole bookshelf in your art library. 'If you're looking for last-minute Christmas presents for your art-loving friends, you could do a lot worse than this. 'What makes the book indispensable is the inclusion of documents in which the artists, critics and theorists speak for themselves.'- Martin Coomer, Time Out Editor Mark Francis has dug a little deeper and drawn together film, photography and even architecture.'- Wallpaper* Pop has it all, not just the iconic big-name images. 'Modern art and design continues to fillet the movement once known as Pop, so Phaidon’s new monograph is a timely look back. Survey author Hal Foster is Professor of Art at Princeton University, author of The Return of the Real and editor of the bestselling The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture and Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics.

In addition to the key artworks by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton, Sigmar Polke, Martial Raysse and many others the book includes works of photography and avant-garde film, as well as what the critic Reyner Banham defined as Pop architecture, ranging from Alison and Peter Smithson’s House of the Future to Archigram’s Walking City and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas.Įditor Mark Francis was former Founding Director of the Andy Warhol Museum and editor of ‘Les Années Pop’ (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2001). Unlike books which present Pop art in isolation, this is a comprehensive survey of Pop in all its forms across America, Britain and Europe. From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word Pop described art, film, photography and architectural design which engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media.

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