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The American dream : pop to the present

Title

The American dream : pop to the present / Stephen Coppel, Catherine Daunt, Susan Tallman ; with contributions from Isabel Seligman and Jennifer Ramkalawon.

Publication

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2017.
©2017

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Description

332 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

The American Dream: From Pop to present' presents an overview of the development of American printmaking since 1960, paying particular attention to key figures such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. The 1960s was a period of change in the production, marketing and consumption of prints and the medium attracted a new generation of artists whose attitude towards making art had been conditioned by the monumentality and bold, eye-catching nature of popular imagery in postwar America, from advertising billboards to drive-in movies. Artists used to working on large canvases and huge sculptures created prints of an unprecedented ambition, scale and boldness in state-of-the-art workshops newly established on both the East and West coasts. Prints also became a means for expressing opinions on the great social issues of the day, from civil rights to the overt and covert role of government. This has continued, with feminism, gender, the body, race and identity, all topics represented in prints in a variety of stylistic approaches across the decades. The changing nature of American society provides a core element of the narrative, with prints offering a fascinating insight into contemporary thinking and attitudes.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Illustrated works.

Note

"This publication accompanies the exhibition 'The American Dream: pop to the present' at the British Museum from 9 March to 18 June 2017."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index.

Language (note)

Text in English.

Contents

1. Pop art -- 2. Three giants of printmaking -- Johns, Rauschenberg, Dine -- 3. The print workshop -- Laboratories of experimentation and collaboration -- 4. Made in California -- The West Coast experience -- 5. Persistence of abstraction -- Gestural and hard-edge 1960s -- 1970s -- 6. Minimalism and conceptualism from the 1970s -- 7. Photorealism -- Portraits and landscapes -- 8. The figure reasserted -- 9. Politics and dissent -- 10. Feminism, gender and the body -- 11. Race and identity -- Unresolved histories -- 12. Signs of the times.

Call Number

JQF 17-1015

ISBN

9780500239605
0500239606

LCCN

2016952893

OCLC

961156697

Title

The American dream : pop to the present / Stephen Coppel, Catherine Daunt, Susan Tallman ; with contributions from Isabel Seligman and Jennifer Ramkalawon.

Publisher

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2017.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Event

"The American Dream : Pop to the Present" : March 9-June 18, 2017, British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and index.

Language

Text in English.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Place of Publication

United States New York New York.

Added Author

Coppel, Stephen, editor.

Daunt, Catherine, editor.

Tallman, Susan, editor.

Seligman, Isabel, contributor.

Ramkalawon, Jennifer, contributor.

British Museum, organizer, host institution, publisher, issuing body.

Thames and Hudson, publisher.

Research Call Number

JQF 17-1015

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