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The American dream : pop to the present /

'The American Dream: From Pop to present' presents an overview of the development of American printmaking since 1960, paying particular attention to key figures such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. The 1960s was a period of change in the production, marketing and cons...

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Other Authors: Coppel, Stephen (Editor), Daunt, Catherine (Editor), Tallman, Susan (Editor), Seligman, Isabel (Contributor), Ramkalawon, Jennifer (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : London : Thames & Hudson : The British Museum, [2017]
Subjects:
Johns, Jasper, > 1930- > Exhibitions.
Rauschenberg, Robert, > 1925-2008 > Exhibitions.
Warhol, Andy, > 1928-1987 > Exhibitions.
Prints, American > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Prints > Technique > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Prints > Social aspects > United States > Exhibitions.
Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions.
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
ISBN:9780500239605
0500239606
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Pop art
  • 2. Three giants of printmaking
  • Johns, Rauschenberg, Dine
  • 3. The print workshop
  • Laboratories of experimentation and collaboration
  • 4. Made in California
  • The West Coast experience
  • 5. Persistence of abstraction
  • Gestural and hard-edge 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 6. Minimalism and conceptualism from the 1970s
  • 7. Photorealism
  • Portraits and landscapes
  • 8. The figure reasserted
  • 9. Politics and dissent
  • 10. Feminism, gender and the body
  • 11. Race and identity
  • Unresolved histories
  • 12. Signs of the times.
  • Piecing together the American dream / Stephen Coppel
  • Irresistible: the rise of the American print workshop / Susan Tallman
  • 1. Pop art
  • 2. Three giants of printmaking: Johns, Rauschenberg, Dine
  • 3. The print workshop: Laboratories of experimentation and collaboration
  • 4. Made in California: the West Coast experience
  • 5. Persistence of abstraction: gestural and hard-edge 1960s-1970s
  • 6. Minimalism and conceptualism from the 1970s
  • 7. Photorealism: portraits and landscapes
  • 8. The figure reasserted
  • 9. Politics and dissent
  • 10. Feminism, gender and the body
  • 11. Race and identity: unresolved histories
  • 12. Signs of the times.

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