Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties

by Mona Hadler (Editor), Kalliopi Minioudaki (Editor)

Overview

Highlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long Sixties, this book offers a new critical reading of Pop for the 21st century.

'a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on Pop art' - Jo Applin, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Featuring an array of rigorous chapters that examine the work of over 20 artists from 5 continents, Pop Art and Beyond transcends the borders of individual and national contexts, and suspends hierarchies to create a space for the work of artists like Andy Warhol and the women of the Black Arts Movement to converse. Casting an inclusive look at the intersectional complexities of difference in Pop at a moment that gave rise to a plethora of radical social movements and identity politics, it contributes bold new perspectives on Pop's heterogeneity.

While this book introduces revelatory non-canonical artists into the Pop context or amplifies the careers of others, it is not limited to the confines of fine art. Chapters explore the intersecting variables of oppression and liberation in rituals of youth subcultures as well as practices across media with Pop sources and parallels ranging from Native American objects, Harlem advertisements, and Cordel literature, to stand-up comedy, music, fashion, and design. Pop Art and Beyond thus widens the conversation about what Pop was and what it can be for contemporary art in its struggle for social justice and critiques of power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350286559
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/14/2023
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Mona Hadler is Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA. She writes on postwar art and visual culture. She has published on artists such as Lee Bontecou, William Baziotes and David Hare; and on jazz in the visual arts, Pontiac hood ornaments and demolition derbies. The latter inspired her book, Destruction Rites: Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture (2017).

Kalliopi Minioudaki is an independent scholar and curator. Her research on the intersection of gender and pop has appeared in several publications and museum catalogues, such as Rosalyn Drexler: Who does she think she is? (Rose Art Museum, 2016); The World Goes Pop (Tate Modern, 2015); Niki de Saint Phalle (Grand Palais, 2014), Power Up: Female Pop Art (Vienna Kunsthalle, 2010). She was curatorial associate of Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 (UArts; Brooklyn Museum, 2010), and co-editor of its catalogue. Since 2015 she co-curates international video and performance art programs for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki

1. Cults or Subcultures? Reckoning with Collective Creation in the English Pop World by Thomas Crow
2. The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown by Manthia Diawara
3. Yugoslav Pop, Female Artists, and the Emergence of Feminist Agency by Lina Džuverovic
4. “Everything for Money”: Warhol, Kant, and Class by Anthony E. Grudin
5. Pop Art's Comic Turn and the Stand-Up Revolution by Mona Hadler
6. Tom Max's “Okinawan Inferno”: Reversion and After by Hiroko Ikegami
7. Following the Traces of Yemanjá: Pop Art, Cultura Popular, and Printmaking in Brazil by Giulia Lamoni
8. Facing the Maid: Gendered Shades of Labor in American Pop by Kalliopi Minioudaki
9. The Commonwealth of British Pop: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Politics in Frank Bowling's Mother's House Series by Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani
10. Market Wares and Trade Marks: Painting Pop in Indian Country, 1964
by Kristine K. Ronan
11. Entangled Mythologies: Race and Class in Hervé Télémaque's Pop (1963-5)
by Marine Schütz
12. Snap! Crackle! Pow!: Robert Colescott and Pop Art by Lowery Stokes Sims
13. Against the Heroes: Revolution, Repression, and Raúl Martínez's Cuban Pop Art by Mercedes Trelles Hernández
14. Myriam Bat-Yosef: World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era by Sarah Wilson
15. Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow: Feminism and the (Pop) “Image” in Chicago's Black Arts Movement by Rebecca Zorach

Index

Editorial Reviews

Pop Art and Beyond: Gender Race and Class in the Global Sixties is the perfect response to today's urgent calling for ever more credible art histories that center recognition of artists and practices that have tended to be erased or downplayed within the dominant canon. The range of texts in the volume will prove indispensable in further building on scholarship that unsettles and challenges stale, hegemonic readings of Pop Art. As such, this book makes an invaluable contribution to art history and decisively signals the direction of progressive academic study. The global reach of this volume, together with the erudition of its contributors, ensure that scholars now have access to new, rigorous, and persuasive research into important aspects of modern art.” —Eddie Chambers, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History, University of Texas at Austin

“This book is a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on Pop art. It offers an urgent analysis and expansion of the material, geographic, and political framing of Pop art. Each of the fifteen original and exhaustively researched chapters shed important new and critical light on the raced, gendered, and classed aspects of Pop art and its artists.” —Jo Applin, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

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