How art made pop and pop became art / Mike Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Mike, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pop art.

Art, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.

Art, Modern.

Philosophy.

Pop art--Influence.

Popular music--20th century.

Popular music.

Art, Modern--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

303 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd., 2018.

Summary:

From dada to Gaga and beyond, How Art Made Pop examines the intertwined histories of pop music and the visual arts from the late 1950s to the present day. In particular, this remarkable and definitive study explores in exhaustive detail the exhilarating exchange between the art schools and the pop stars that they nurtured (or, occasionally, expelled). Through a writhing, hedonistic hurly burly of numerous artists and musicians including Marcel Duchamp, the Beatles, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, Gilbert & George, Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Richard Hamilton, Roxy Music, Patti Smith, Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Factory Records, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the KLF and Jay Z amongst others How Art Made Pop encompasses the worldwide history of art school rock, and brings the story up to date by contextualizing the practices of the many contemporary visual artists and artist-musicians still dazzled by pop's vital spark."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

Part 1 1950s and 1960s

1 British Post-War Tomorrows: 1956 and All That p. 15

John Lennon, rock'n'roll, Richard Hamilton and the Independent Group

2 Clearing out the Attic p. 19

Art school bohemianism, revivalist and modern jazz, and the emergence of mod culture at the turn of the 1960s

3 Pop Art Pop p. 29

Pete Townshend and the Who; British pop artists and popular music

4 The Gap Between the Two p. 36

From New York dada to Fluxus, Warhol and the Velvet Underground

5 Warholmania and the American 'Now' p. 43

Warhol, anti-Hollywood and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable

6 Hungry Freaks, Daddy p. 49

Zappa, Beefheart, the Family Dog and West Coast psychedelic visual culture

7 Now and Then: The Ancient as Modern p. 58

Ray Davies and the Kinks, 1986 and the retreat from modernism

8 Intermedial Overdrive p. 62

Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and the synaesthesia of the English underground

9 Technicolour Dreams p. 71

Psychedelic pop art culture, progressive rock and the avant-garde

10 High Concept p. 77

Sgt, Pepper's, conceptual art and concept rock in swinging London

11 New Revivalism at 'The End of Art' p. 101

Life's victory over art and the rock'n'roll revival

Part 2 The Long 1970s

12 Gilbert & George and Ralf und Florian p. 107

Self-staging, krautrock and a new inter-cultural axis

13 After Warhol p. 113

The legacy of Warhol's Factory and the Velvet Underground

14 David Bowie: Suburban Superstar p. 118

Bowie as the embodiment of the suburban art school outsider

15 Glitter, Glam and 'Them' p. 124

From New York's gay performance art theatre to British glam rock

16 All Styles Served Here: Roxy Music p. 131

The ultimate art school pop group

17 Transformers p. 138

The body as a site for transformational fantasy in art and pop music

18 SEX and the Situationists p. 147

Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, Jamie Reid and situationism in pre-punk Britain

19 Beat Punks of New York p. 153

Pattr Smith and New York's 'new symbolist' aesthetes, the arch primitivism of Garageland and avant-pop's assimilation of video art

20 Wreckers of Civilisation p. 177

Punk, via post-hippie libertarianism and decadent Weimar chic

21 Now Form A Band p. 186

The punk aesthetic and punk as an integrated, inter-disciplinary art form

22 A New Career in an Old Town p. 192

New translations of European modernist avant-gardism in post-punk Britain

23 Don't Call It Punk p. 204

New wave, no wave and neo-expressionism

24 Almost White p. 214

Art school curatorship of black musical culture reciprocated through hip-hop

Part 3 1980s, 1990s And Ever After

25 Heavy Rotation: MTV and Video Pop p. 221

Music video, the Second British Invasion, sampling and appropriation

26 Playing the System p. 226

ZTT, Scritti Politti, slogan art and postmodern commodity culture

27 The New Music Makeover p. 234

Bruce Springsteen, new wave soul and America's assimilation of art pop

28 No Alternative p. 238

Alternative rock becomes the mainstream as pop music is academicised

29 Post-Pop Music p. 266

From the KLF to karaoke as art reasserts its cultural prominence

30 The Art Pop Revival p. 272

A nostalgic revival of the love affair between art and pop in Britain

31 Pop into Art p. 280

The museumification of art pop, and sound art's "third way'

32 Last Orders p. 289

The pop star as iconic exhibit while hip-hop stalks the art world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-296) and index.

ISBN:

9781849761321

1849761329

OCLC:

1060194588