Full Description
Highlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long Sixties, this book offers a new critical reading of Pop for the 21st century.
'a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on Pop art' - Jo Applin, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Featuring an array of rigorous chapters that examine the work of over 20 artists from 5 continents, Pop Art and Beyond transcends the borders of individual and national contexts, and suspends hierarchies to create a space for the work of artists like Andy Warhol and the women of the Black Arts Movement to converse. Casting an inclusive look at the intersectional complexities of difference in Pop at a moment that gave rise to a plethora of radical social movements and identity politics, it contributes bold new perspectives on Pop's heterogeneity.
While this book introduces revelatory non-canonical artists into the Pop context or amplifies the careers of others, it is not limited to the confines of fine art. Chapters explore the intersecting variables of oppression and liberation in rituals of youth subcultures as well as practices across media with Pop sources and parallels ranging from Native American objects, Harlem advertisements, and Cordel literature, to stand-up comedy, music, fashion, and design. Pop Art and Beyond thus widens the conversation about what Pop was and what it can be for contemporary art in its struggle for social justice and critiques of power.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki
1. Cults or Subcultures? Reckoning with Collective Creation in the English Pop World
by Thomas Crow
2. The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown
by Manthia Diawara
3. Yugoslav Pop, Female Artists, and the Emergence of Feminist Agency
by Lina Džuverovic
4. "Everything for Money": Warhol, Kant, and Class
by Anthony E. Grudin
5. Pop Art's Comic Turn and the Stand-Up Revolution
by Mona Hadler
6. Tom Max's "Okinawan Inferno": Reversion and After
by Hiroko Ikegami
7. Following the Traces of Yemanjá: Pop Art, Cultura Popular, and Printmaking in Brazil
by Giulia Lamoni
8. Facing the Maid: Gendered Shades of Labor in American Pop
by Kalliopi Minioudaki
9. The Commonwealth of British Pop: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Politics in Frank Bowling's Mother's House Series
by Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani
10. Market Wares and Trade Marks: Painting Pop in Indian Country, 1964
by Kristine K. Ronan
11. Entangled Mythologies: Race and Class in Hervé Télémaque's Pop (1963-5)
by Marine Schütz
12. Snap! Crackle! Pow!: Robert Colescott and Pop Art
by Lowery Stokes Sims
13. Against the Heroes: Revolution, Repression, and Raúl Martínez's Cuban Pop Art
by Mercedes Trelles Hernández
14. Myriam Bat-Yosef: World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era
by Sarah Wilson
15. Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow: Feminism and the (Pop) "Image" in Chicago's Black Arts Movement
by Rebecca Zorach
Index
