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Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955 - 1962
$35.00
By Russell Ferguson, Donna DeSalvo and Paul Schimmel.
Pop art is thought of as mechanically produced and reproduced art. Though it may be loaded with color and crash/bang action images, it expresses cool detachment through the exclusion of brush strokes and the nearly industrial production. The contributors here make an impressive case for thinking of pop art as closely related to the abstract expressionist New York School, in which the passion of artists pushing and brushing paint around the...