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Pop Art Overview

Pop Art by Marco Livingstone This critical history of the Pop Art movement offers a clear perspective of the movement, with a fully documented chronology that unravels the sequence of events associated with the evolution of Pop in Britain, the USA and Europe.
ISBN: 0500282404
Publication Date: 2000

Britannica - Pop Art
Pop art, art in which commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) were used as subject matter and were often physically incorporated into the work.
Pop Art Story
Pop art started with the New York artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg, all of whom drew on popular imagery and were actually part of an international phenomenon. Following the popularity of the Abstract Expressionists, Pop's reintroduction of identifiable imagery (drawn from mass media and popular culture) was a major shift for the direction of modernism.
10 MOST FAMOUS POP ART PAINTINGS AND COLLAGES
Pop Art was an art movement that dominated the art world in the mid 20th century. Considered the last prominent modern art movement, Pop Art appreciates popular culture as opposed to elitist culture.
Famous pop artists and their works
Discusses the British and American pop art movements and some in depth discussion and images from famous pop artists
More pop artists
Think You Know Pop Art? Think again! Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, soup cans and multiple Marilyn Monroes are just part of the story.

Who is Andy Warhol?
Andy Warhol was part of the pop art movement. He was born Andrew Warhola in 1928 in Pennsylvania. His parents were from a part of Europe that is now part of Slovakia. They moved to New York in the 1920s.

Andy Warhol by Susan Goldman Rubin Soup cans! Dollar bills! Movie stars! Paint by numbers! Is it art? Yes! Andy Warhol's art.Following award-winning artist biographies Degas and the Dance, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Cezanne, an exciting new book from Abrams Books for Young Readers looks at Andy Warhol. A leader of the American art movement known as Pop, short for "popular culture," Warhol changed the way we think of art. Assisted by photographs taken of Warhol throughout his life, and examples of his early drawings and best-known works, Susan Goldman Rubin traces his rise from poverty to wealth, and from obscurity to fame.After attending art school in Pittsburgh, Warhol started a career as a commercial artist in New York, and quickly won acclaim for his creative advertisements. When he turned to "real" painting, he used his background in commercial illustration and blurred the line between high and low art.Some critics have said that Warhol's pictures of Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles represent American life. But Warhol said, "I just paint those objects in my paintings because those are the things I know best. I think of myself as an American artist." Warhol's unique images will appeal to young readers, and inspire them to see the world around them in new ways. F&P level: R
Call Number: 700 RUB
ISBN: 9780810954779
Publication Date: 2006

Peter Max Biography
"My life's journey has been an odyssey through time and space, filled with vivid moments, abundant with color, dazzling with sights, and vibrant with euphonic sounds. These moments collectively create my story, not only of who I was but also of who I was to become - an artist living in New York City, where I have been fortunate to reach a global audience with my art and philosophy." - Peter Max
Gallery of works by Peter Max
Over the course of his life, Peter Max has virtually redefined the role of the American artist. In the 60s, he was the pictorial “voice” of a generation determined to break boundaries of consciousness in the name of love and joy.

Tate Museum - pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s.

Roy Lichtenstein - Tate Museum
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement.
Lichtenstein Foundation
Images and other useful information from the artist's foundation

5 Things to know about Keith Haring
Keith Haring was a popular artist and activist who was part of the legendary New York art scene during the 1980s. While he is known for his colourful works and his iconic motifs such as the radiant baby and the barking dog, much of his work responded to contemporary social and political events.

Haring by Kolossa Alexandra
Call Number: 759.13 HAR
ISBN: 9783836512565
Publication Date: 2009

10 Virtual Art museums
Art lovers can view thousands of paintings, sculptures, installations and new work online – many in minute detail – as well as explore the museums themselves. There are various platforms: from interactive, 360-degree videos and full “walk-around” tours with voiceover descriptions to slideshows with zoomable photos of the world’s greatest artworks. And many allow viewers to get closer to the art than they could do in real life.

Search the online collections of some of the world's most well-known and respected museums. These all link to the museums' search pages.

The British Museum (UK)
Britain's largest museum containing over 8 million objects.
The Guggenheim Museum (USA)
A renowned and continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art.
Harvard Art Museums (USA)
A truly international collection containing 250,000 items dating from antiquity to the present.
The Hermitage Museum (Russia)
Contains over 3 millions items; a spectacular collection of world art.
The Louvre (France)
Holds some of the world's most important collections.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA)
The largest museum in the Western Hemisphere. Its collection, both broad and deep, contains over 2 millions items.
The Museum of Modern Art (USA)
One of the most influential museums of modern art in the world.
Rijksmuseum (the Netherlands)
The largest collection of art and history in the Netherlands; contains over 900,000 objects.
The Smithsonian (USA)
The world’s largest research and museum complex containing more than 137 million objects. "There’s so much to see that, if you spent one minute day and night looking at each object on exhibit, in ten years you’d see only ten percent of the whole." (nationalgeogrpahic.com)