Author: PIERRE, JOSE
Title: Pop Art an Illustrated Dictionary
Description: London: Eyre Methuen, 1977. First English Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0413383709. B & W and Color; 7.80 X 5.12 X 1 inches; 160 pages; Soft cover has a blue and green spine with black lettering. Covers have light rubbing and bumping. Originally published in French in 1975 as ' Le pop art'. Translated by W. J. Strachan. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with color and b/w pictures. 'An art movement that began in the U. S. In the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures'. Arranged alphabetically.. Very Good+ .

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