Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties

This book explores the intersections of gender, race, and class in Pop Art during the Long Sixties and offers a new critical reading for the 21st century. It features rigorous chapters on over 20 artists from 5 continents, transcending boundaries and highlighting the work of artists like Andy Warhol and the Black Arts Movement. It also explores the intersecting variables of oppression and liberation in rituals of youth subcultures and practices across media, widening the conversation about what Pop was and what it can be for contemporary art.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 14 December 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This book offers a fresh and critical perspective on Pop Art for the twenty-first century, focusing on the intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with the movement during the Long Sixties. By examining the work of over 20 artists from five continents, Pop Art and Beyond transcends the boundaries of individual and national contexts, creating a space for artists like Andy Warhol and the women of the Black Arts Movement to converse. The book explores the complex intersectionalities of difference in Pop at a time when radical social movements and identity politics emerged. It contributes bold new perspectives on Pop's heterogeneity, introducing revelatory non-canonical artists into the context or amplifying the careers of others. Chapters delve into the intersecting variables of oppression and liberation in rituals of youth subcultures and practices across media, drawing parallels from Native American objects, Harlem advertisements, Cordel literature, stand-up comedy, music, fashion, and design. Pop Art and Beyond thus broadens the conversation about what Pop was and what it can be for contemporary art in its pursuit of social justice and critiques of power.

Weight: 698g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350286559