Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. INTRODUCTION. Wham! Blam! How Pop Art Stormed the High-Art Citadel and What the Critics Said xiii
6. 1 PRE-POP: AMERICAN PRECURSORS, ENGLISH CURRENTS
7. From “Larry Rivers: ‘Why I Paint as I Do’ 1
8. “But Today We Collect Ads” 3
9. “Letter to Peter and Alison Smithson” 5
10. “The Arts and the Mass Media” 7
11. “Mixed Mediums for a Soft Revolution” 10
12. “Jasper Johns” 11
13. From “After Abstract Expressionism” 13
14. “Pop Art and After” 14
15. From “Robert Rauschenberg” 19
16. 2 THE PHENOMENON OF POP: GENERAL ESSAYS AND LOCAL REVIEWS, 1962–1970
17. From “Month in Review: New York Exhibitions” 25
18. “‘Pop’ Culture, Metaphysical Disgust, and the New Vulgarians” 29
19. From “Los Angeles Letter” 33
20. “The New American ‘Sign Painters’” 34
21. “On the Theme of the Exhibition” 39
22. “Art: Avant-Garde Revolt” 41
23. “The New Painting of Common Objects” 43
24. “Kitch into ‘Art’: The New Realism” 47
25. “Dada, Then and Now” 57
26. “A Symposium on Pop Art” 65
27. “Pop Art at the Guggenheim” 82
28. “The Flaccid Art” 85
29. “Anti-Sensibility Painting” 88
30. “The New Art” 90
31. “Pop Art, USA” 97
32. “Pop and Public” 100
33. “What Is Pop Art? Part I” 103
34. From “What Is Pop Art? Part II” 112
35. “Pop Art Sells On and On — Why?” 118
36. “The Biennale: How Evil is Pop Art?” 124
37. “Dissimulated Pop” 126
38. “Pop Art Exhibited, and It’s Crazy, Dad” 130
39. “Pop Art and Non-Pop Art” 131
40. “Further Observations on the Pop Phenomenon” 135
41. “Oldenburg, Lichtenstein, Warhol: A Discussion” 140
42. “Special Report: The Story of Pop” 148
43. “Dada, Camp, and the Mode Called Pop” 154
44. “London Court Fines a Gallery for ‘Indecent’ Pop-Art Display” 162
45. “Present-Day Styles and Ready-Made Criticism” 163
46. “Popular Culture and Pop Art” 167
47. “Pop Reappraised” 175
48. “The Art World: Marilyn Mondrian” 180
49. 3 FOCUS: THE MAJOR ARTISTS
50. Roy Lichtenstein
51. “Everything Clear Now?” 187
52. “In the Galleries: Roy Lichtenstein” 188
53. “Roy Lichtenstein and the Realist Revolt” 189
54. “Roy Lichtenstein, Ferus Gallery” 194
55. “Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?” 195
56. “Pop Artist Switches to Aggressive Neutral Banality” 197
57. “Talking with Roy Lichtenstein” 198
58. “Roy Lichtenstein and the Comic Strip” 203
59. “Roy Lichtenstein” 207
60. Claes Oldenburg
61. “Statement” 213
62. “New York Letter” 216
63. “Off Off-Broadway; ‘Happenings’ at Ray Gun Mfg. Co.” 217
64. “The Living Object” 219
65. From “Marcel Duchamp and Common Object Art” 223
66. “In the Galleries: Claes Oldenburg” 225
67. “Object-Making” 226
68. “Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Machines” 228
69. From “Claes Oldenburg” 235
70. James Rosenquist
71. “Reviews and Previews: New Names This Month: James Rosenquist” 241
72. Essay From Exhibition Catalogue, James Rosenquist 242
73. “Los Angeles: James Rosenquist” 244
74. “James Rosenquist: Aspects of a Multiple Art” 245
75. “The Man in the Paper Suit” 251
76. “A New Hangar for Rosenquist’s Jet-Pop ‘F-111’” 253
77. “Re the F-111: A Collector’s Notes” 255
78. “Rosenquist at the Met: Avant-Garde or Red Guard?” 258
79. “Art” 263
80. Andy Warhol
81. “Andy Warhol, Ferus Gallery” 266
82. From “New York Letter” 267
83. “In the Galleries: Andy Warhol” 268
84. “The Artworld” 269
85. “Saint Andrew” 278
86. “Reviews and Previews: New Names this Month: Andy Warhol” 281
87. “Superpop or a Night at the Factory” 282
88. “Warhol: The Silver Tenement” 287
89. “Prince of Boredom: The Repetitions and Passivities of Andy Warhol” 291
90. “Early Warhol: The Systematic Evolution of the Impersonal Style” 294
91. 4 FROM CENTER TO PERIPHERY: OTHER FIGURES
92. Allan D’Arcangelo
93. “In the Galleries: Allan D’Arcangelo” 302
94. “Highways & By-ways” 302
95. Jim Dine
96. “Jim Dine and the Psychology of the New Art” 305
97. “New York: Jim Dine” 312
98. Öyvind Fahlström
99. “Öyvind Fahlström: Models of Shattered Reality” 314
100. Robert Indiana
101. “The Horizons of Robert Indiana” 318
102. Foreword From Exhibition Catalogue, Robert Indiana 322
103. Mel Ramos
104. “In the Galleries: Mel Ramos” 324
105. “The Art of Mel Ramos” 324
106. Edward Ruscha
107. “Edward Ruscha, Ferus Gallery” 328
108. “Concerning ‘Various Small Fires’: Edward Ruscha Discusses His Perplexing Publications” 329
109. George Segal
110. “Segal’s Vital Mummies” 331
111. “Plaster Caste” 335
112. Peter Saul
113. “Reviews and Previews: New Names this Month: Peter Saul” 337
114. Essay From Exhibition Catalogue, Peter Saul 338
115. Wayne Thiebaud
116. “Reviews and Previews: New Names this Month: Wayne Thiebaud” 341
117. “Thiebaud: Eros in Cafeteria” 342
118. John Wesley
119. “In the Galleries: John Wesley” 345
120. Tom Wesselmann
121. “‘Pop’ Show by Tom Wesselmann Is Revisited” 347
122. “Tom Wesselmann and the Gates of Horn” 349
123. 5 REVISING POP: LATER CRITICAL REFLECTIONS
124. “American Painting during the Cold War” 354
125. “That Old Thing, Art...” 370
126. “The Rise of Andy Warhol” 375
127. From “The Independent Group: British and American Pop Art, a ‘Palimpcestuous’ Legacy” 385
128. From “Pop Triumphant: A New Realism” 397
129. CHRONOLOGY
130. An Exhibitions Chronicle: 1958–1970 405
131. INDEX 415