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Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumerism, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Epitomized by Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources and products as well as the banal...

A crucial visual document of German history, Josef Darchinger's portfolio of postwar West Germany reveals an extraordinary era, caught between increasing affluence and continued penury, between bomb sites and new building, between German Gemutlichkeit and the new threat of the Cold War.

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop Art also deployed methods of mass-production, reducing the role of the individual artist with mechanized techniques such as screen printing. With featured artists including Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement.

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop Art also deployed methods of mass-production, reducing the role of the individual artist with mechanized techniques such as screen printing. With featured artists including Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement.

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter's work always offers us the unexpected and unseen. Where he once set out to liberate the medium from ideological ballast, today, faced with the overwhelming presence of digital images, he shows us the unsurpassed impact and intensity of painting. A definitive introduction to one of the greatest artists of our time spanning not only his entire career, but also 50 years of cultural, economic, and political events.

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter's work always offers us the unexpected and unseen. Where he once set out to liberate the medium from ideological ballast, today, faced with the overwhelming presence of digital images, he shows us the unsurpassed impact and intensity of painting. A definitive introduction to one of the greatest artists of our time spanning not only his entire career, but also 50 years of cultural, economic, and political events.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism, media, and celebrity. Drawing on contemporary advertisements, comic strips, consumer products, and Hollywood's most famous faces, Warhol proposed a radical reevaluation of what constituted artistic subject matter. Through Warhol, a Campbell's soup can and Coca Cola bottle became as worthy of artistic status as any traditional still life. At the same time, Warhol reconfigured the role of the artist. Famously stating "I want to be a machine," he systematically reduced the presence of his own authorship, working with mass-production methods and images, as well as dozens of assistants in a studio he dubbed the Factory. This book introduces Warhol's multifaceted, prolific oeuvre, which revolutionized distinctions between "high" and "low" art and integrated ideas of living, producing, and consuming that remain central questions of modern experience.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism, media, and celebrity. Drawing on contemporary advertisements, comic strips, consumer products, and Hollywood's most famous faces, Warhol proposed a radical reevaluation of what constituted artistic subject matter. Through Warhol, a Campbell's soup can and Coca Cola bottle became as worthy of artistic status as any traditional still life. At the same time, Warhol reconfigured the role of the artist. Famously stating "I want to be a machine," he systematically reduced the presence of his own authorship, working with mass-production methods and images, as well as dozens of assistants in a studio he dubbed the Factory. This book introduces Warhol's multifaceted, prolific oeuvre, which revolutionized distinctions between "high" and "low" art and integrated ideas of living, producing, and consuming that remain central questions of modern experience.

Eine Begegnung mit dem deutschen Künstler Gerhard Richter , der dem Verhältnis von Malerei und Wirklichkeit neue Horizonte eröffnete. Von seinen frühen, fotografischen Gemälden, über den berühmten RAF-Zyklus, bis zu den späten abstrakten Bildern - im Erleben von Richters Werken begegnet man stets dem Unerwarteten und Ungesehenen. Einst angetreten, das Medium vom ideologischen Ballast zu befreien, zeigt er uns heute, angesichts der überwältigenden Präsenz digitaler Images, die unübertroffene Wirkung und Eindringlichkeit gemalter Bilder. Eine kenntnisreiche Einführung über einen der größten Künstler unserer Zeit, die nicht nur seine gesamte Karriere, sondern auch fünfzig Jahre kultureller, ökonomischer und politischer Ereignisse einbezieht.

Pop Art erreichte in den 1960er-Jahren ihren Höhepunkt. Die Bewegung, die als Revolte gegen bürgerliche Haltungen zu Kunst und Kultur begonnen hatte, wollte ergründen, was eigentlich ein Kunstwerk ausmacht, und hinterfragte schließlich die gesamte moderne Gesellschaft mit ihrer Konsumkultur sowie die Rolle des Künstlers.Die Themen der Pop-Art-Künstler waren Materialismus, Medien und Celebrity-Kult; sie schöpften aus Quellen des Massenmarktes, von Werbung und Comics über die Gesichter von Hollywoodstars bis hin zur Verpackung von Konsumprodukten - Letzteres sollte später in Form von Andy Warhols Campbell's-Suppendosen Kultstatus erlangen. Durch die Erhöhung solcher populärer, banaler und kitschiger Bilder forderte Pop Art das Establishment heraus. Durch den Einsatz moderner Vervielfältigungstechniken wie dem Siebdruckverfahren wurde zudem die Bedeutung des einzelnen Künstlers reduziert.Dieses Buch stellt u. a. Werke von Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg und Roy Lichtenstein vor und untersucht daran Wirkung und Einfluss einer der bedeutendsten Bewegungen der Moderne.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) gilt als wichtigster Vertreter der Pop-Art-Bewegung. Er war ein kritischer und scharfsinniger Beobachter der amerikanischen Gesellschaft und setzte sich kreativ mit den Themen Konsumverhalten, Materialismus, Medien und Celebrity-Kult auseinander.Warhol bediente sich in seiner Kunst bei Werbung, Comics, Konsumprodukten und den Gesichtern von Hollywoodstars und stellte damit die Frage nach dem Objekt der Kunst radikal neu. Durch ihn wurden Suppendosen von Campbell und Coca-Cola-Flaschen genauso darstellungswürdig wie ein traditionelles Stillleben. Gleichzeitig revolutionierte er die Rolle des Künstlers. Er verkündete: "Ich will eine Maschine sein" und reduzierte seine persönliche Beteiligung an der Entstehung der Kunstwerke, indem er moderne Vervielfältigungstechniken einsetzte und in seinem Studio The Factory Dutzende von Assistenten beschäftigte.Dieses Buch stellt Warhols vielschichtiges und umfassendes OEuvre vor, das den Unterschied zwischen Hoch- und Popkultur aufhebt und Lebensweise, Produktionsarten und Konsumverhalten der heutigen Zeit thematisiert.

Meet Gerhard Richter, the German artist who redefined painting. Between abstract works and photography-based paintings, Richter pushes the medium's boundaries and reminds us of its urgency and importance in a world overwhelmed by digital images. This introduction to one of the greatest artists of our time explores his entire career.

Discover the artist who put soup cans in MoMA and movie stars in the Met. This introduction to Andy Warhol presents his prolific and radical oeuvre and its relentless interrogation of consumerism, materialism, and the role of the artist. The title includes more than 100 images of Warhol's work in top-quality reproductions that retain all of the...