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. Unlike books which
present Pop art in isolation, this is a comprehensive survey of Pop in
all of its forms across America, Britain and Europe
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
Editor Mark Francis was former Founding Director of the Andy Warhol
Museum and editor of 'Les Années Pop' (Centre Georges Pompidou, 2001).
Survey author Hal Foster is Professor of Art at Princeton University,
author of The Return of the Real and editor of the bestselling
TheAnti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture and Recodings: Art,
Spectacle, Cultural Politics