American Pop Art in France - Politics of the Transatlantic Image

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s, yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure, especially in Paris. From the end of the Algerian War of Independence and the opening of Ileana Sonnabend's gallery for American Pop art in Paris in 1962, to the silkscreen poster workshops of May '68, this book examines critical adaptations of Pop motifs and pictorial devices across French painting, graphic design, cinema and protest aesthetics. Liam Considine argues that the transatlantic dispersion of Pop art gave rise to a new politics of the image that challenged Americanization and prefigured the critiques and contradictions of May '68.

Product details

• Authors: Liam Considine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2023
• EAN: 9781032653570
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3265357-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Graphic Design, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Europe, Theory of art, European History, The arts: general issues, HISTORY / Europe / General, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Politics & government, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Political campaigning & advertising, The Americas, Political campaigning and advertising, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), The arts: general topics