Pop Art

This book is a collection of essays by art critics on Pop Art. Lucy Lippard examines Pop's precursors and related styles, ranging from folk art, Surrealism and Dada, Stuart Davis and Léger, to the Reuben group, Assemblage, Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and then discusses Pop Art in New York. Lawrence Alloway contributes a chapter on the development of Pop in England. Nancy Marmer considers California Pop. Nicolas Calas, a member of the Surrealist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, asseases Pop icons, and Lucy Lippard concludes the book with a survey of Pop in Europe.