Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pop
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989
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191 pages, illustrations (some colour); 20 cm. Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pop accompanies "The Pop Project," a series of exhibitions presented by The Institute for Contemporary Art developed for The Clocktower Gallery, from October 22, 1987 through June 12, 1988. A good reading copy with some underlining, chiefly clean. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. *** CONTENTS: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: the independent group and popular culture, by Brian Wallis; Bunk: Eduardo Paolozzi and the legacy of the independent group, by Thomas Lawson; The long front of culture, by Lawrence Alloway; This is tomorrow: genesis of an exhibition, by Graham Whitham; Designed aesthetic: exhibition design and the independent group, by Judith Barry; New brutalism and the welfare state: 1949-59, by Kenneth Frampton; But today we collect ads, by Alison and Peter Smithson; Persuading image, by Richard Hamilton; Vehicles of desire, by Reyner Banham; The sci-fi connection: the IG, J. G. Ballard, and Robert Smithson, by Eugenie Tsai; In poor taste: notes on pop, by Dick Hebdige; An observed conversation, by Leo Castelli [and others]; I am for an art that ., by Claes Oldenburg; Public image: homeless projects by Krzsztof Wodiczko and Dennis Adams, by Tom Finkelpearl; Why is pop so unpopular?, by Patricia Phillips; The necessity of walls: the impact of television on architecture, by Glenn Weiss and Edward Leffingwell; A brokerage of desire, by Howard Halle; Nostalgia as resistance, by Thomas Lawson; Afterword and acknowledgments, by Alanna Heiss. Size: 8vo. …
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- Title
- Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pop
- Author
- Finkelpearl, Tom (Directed by); Alloway, Lawrence, et al. (Contributions by)
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262730812
- ISBN 13
- 9780262730815
- Edition
- 1st.
- Seller catalogs
- European::British & Irish, Movements::Pop Art & Happenings, USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999, XO::Standard
Modern Dreams pursues the transformation of images of popular culture into meaningful icons of contemporary society on four fronts. It begins by investigating the Independent Group's landmark exhibition "This is Tomorrow Today" held at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1956 as proto-Pop; examines the utilization of art related technology and imagery as a kind of agit-Pop of the streets; explores the theoretical ramifications, qualified accomplishments, and possibilities of archi-Pop; and discusses the self referential, picture oriented production of post-Pop.
A conversation among the Americans who were instrumental in defining Pop interprets the impact, of the British "proto-Pop" group on emerging American Pop artists, and provides a revealing look at some of the issues at stake, in the mass media environment that informs the work of artists of the 1980s.
Distributed for the P.S. 1 Museum, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources.
Essays by
Dennis Adams, Lawrence Alloway, Reyner Banham, Judith Barry, Thomas Finkelpearl, Kenneth Frampton, Richard Hamilton, Dick Hebdige, Thomas Lawson, Patricia Phillips, Alison and Peter Smithson, Eugenie Tsai, Brian Wallis, Glenn Weiss, Krzysztof Wodiczko
A conversation with
Alanna Heiss, Leo Castelli, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, John Coplans, Betsey Johnson
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