Tilman Osterwold

"Everything is beautiful," raved Andy Warhol, in raptures about the glamour of modern life, consumer society, and the world of the media and its stars; his proclamation can be considered the maxim of the pop generation, which included artists Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, and Richard Hamilton, among others. The pop artists of the 1960s had a profound effect on the fabric of art history and their influence can be clearly seen in art today. Here, Tilman Osterwold explores the styles, themes, and sources of pop art around the world. "Ce livre met parfaitement en lumière les styles, les thèmes, la diversité des origines et des expressions nationales du Pop Art, complétant l'ensemble par la biograhie des artistes les plus importants du mouvement." nart.com, France

Pop Art

Less a distinct style than the concrete expression of being in a particular era, Pop art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, and the role of the artist and artwork. The movementrsquo;s primary provocation was to defy ideas of the artistic canon or ldquo;originalityrdquo; by integrating mass market imagery into their works. Whether advertising slogans, famed Hollywood faces, comic-strip-style characters, or the packaging of consumer products, the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein knowingly reproduced mundane, everyday images from popular culture. At the same time, Pop art reduced the role of the individual and challenged the notion of originality by deploying mass production techniques such as screen printing. Like a hall of mirrors, the resulting works came to interrogate both the ideas and desires of contemporary culture, and its state of simulacra, whereby images, substitutes, and representations come to define the experience of ldquo;reality.rdquo; In this book, Tilman Osterwold explores the styles, sources, and stars of the Pop Art phenomenon. From Lichtensteinrsquo;s comic-book aesthetics to Warholrsquo;s images of Marilyn, it explores how a movement that interrogated the icons of its time came to produce icons of its own.

Andy Warhol

Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Kenneth E. Silver

Zdenek Felix

retrospektiv ; ... in d. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2.7.-19.9.1993 u. im Württembergischen Kunstverein, Stuttgart (13.11.1993-6.2.1994)

die Geschichte des Goldes vom Mittelalter zur Gegenwart

Das Goldene Zeitalter

Werner Hofmann

Hamburger Kunsthalle. Schwabe Stiftung

Gustav Christian Schwabe

""Everything is beautiful,"" raved Andy Warhol, in raptures at the glamour of modern life, consumer society, the world of the media and its stars. And in so saying, he was expressing the feelings of a generation who felt their age was dawning, an age of ""love"" and ""freedom."" In art, too, a new attitude towards the present was making itself felt. Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, Richard Hamilton and many other artists were discovering Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Coca Cola, comics, advertising, household appliances and food cans as an independent aesthetic reality. Popularity and triviality were no longer terms of abuse, but were central to a new understanding of an art whose aim was to break down the barriers between art and life. The author gives us a detailed account of the styles, themes and sources of Pop Art, investigating its development in different countries and providing biographies of its leading exponents.

Tilman Osterwold

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