About Pop Art Taschen Hardcover – Klaus Honnef

With featured artists including Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this pop art Taschen hardcover book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement. 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. More details on Pop Art Book Taschen Hardcover – Klaus Honnef:

• Dimensions: 10.5″ x 8.5″ x 1″ inches
• Weight: 2 lbs
• Materials: Hardcover | 96 Pages
• Author: Klaus Honnef
• Publisher: TASCHEN (October 14, 2015)
• Series: Basic Art Series 2.0