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The World Goes Pop

The World Goes Pop
Library Shelf Location 04.POPA
Publication Date 2015
Description

Catalogue accompanies exhibition held 17 September 2015 - 24 January 2016, Tate Modern, London.

Contents: Political Pop : an introduction / Jessica Morgan -- Pop effects in Eastern Europe under Communist rule / David Crowley -- 1966 in the world of Pop / Flavia Frigeri -- Unfolding the 'present' : some notes on Brazilian 'Pop' / Giulia Lamoni -- Feminist eruptions in Pop, beyond borders / Kalliopi Minioudaki -- Oiran goes Pop : contemporary Japanese artists reinventing icons / Reiko Tomii -- Pop art in Argentina / Mercedes Trelles-Hernández -- Children of Marx and Coca-Cola : Pop in a divided world / Sarah Wilson.

Summary: The World Goes Pop explores the contemporaneous engagements with a spirit of pop throughout the globe, concentrating not only on the relatively well-covered activity in the US, UK and France but also on developments throughout Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. From the late 1950s onwards, numerous artists and movements with a Pop aesthetic developed throughout these continents, including Nouveau realisme, Neo Dada, New Figuration, Equipo Cronica, and Cronica de la Realidad and Saqqakhaneh or Spiritual Pop, as well as such singular figures as Oyvind Fahlstrom, Keiichi Tanaami, and Erro. These artists and movements differed from one another due to their geographies as much as to their exposure to centralised or marginal cultural manifestations, and they were informed by their respective traditions, social and political movements. This unique book offers an opportunity to examine the origins and socio-political side of Pop, including pop and the political representation; pop and the new sexual politics; pop and the mass; seriality, distribution and the role of print production.Featuring six newly-commissioned essays from a wide range of international contributors, and produced in close collaboration with the artists involved, The World Goes Pop is the first book to rely on primary sources to re-evaluate Pop art throughout the globe.

 

ISBN 9781849762700
Quantity 1
Pages 272
Editors Jessica Morgan, Flavia Frigeri
Format Paperback
Publisher Tate Publishing
Category Art Styles and Movements
Keywords Pop Art, pop culture
Language English

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