Tillman osterwold biography

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.

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 “reality.”
In this book, Tilman Osterwold explores the styles, sources, and stars of the Pop Art phenomenon. From Lichtenstein’s comic-book aesthetics to Warhol’s images of Marilyn, it explores how a movement that interrogated the icons of its time came to produce icons of its own.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Thus. 239pp., illustrated throughout: colour and b/white, art and photographic plates. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated, flapped stiff card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. In the 1960s a new generation of artists that included Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Robert Rauscgenberg discovered Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Coca Cola, comics, advertising, food cans, and household appliances as an independent aesthetic reality. The genre has become known as ‘Pop Art’. Contents, (English translation by Iain Galb