Pop

‘The many strengths of this absorbing, eclectically detailed survey are concentrated most in the cultural historical networking that is achieved between image and text. What results is in part a luxurious and luxuriating immersion in the sheer visual gorgeousness of much Pop material, and in part a digest and directory of Pop’s great works, sources and related texts - Pop’s greatest hits, so to speak. - Pop art ought never to be consigned to some ever-expanding repertoire of stylish retro-aesthetics. It is the cultural link between Surrealism and Postmodernism, and often made statements about the modern world that have yet to be improved, or updated.’ Michael Bracewell, Art Monthly, November 2006 ‘Modern art and design continues to fillet the movement once known as Pop, so Phaidon’s new monograph is a timely look back - Pop has it all, not just the iconic big-name images - Editor Mark Francis [ - ] has dug a little deeper and drawn together film, photography and even architecture’ Wallpaper*, December 2005

Mark Francis is a London-based curator and writer. A director of Gagosian Gallery, he was formerly Chief Curator of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and its Founding Director. In 2001 he directed and edited the catalogue for the exhibition ‘Les Annees Pop’, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and a former Senior Editor of Art in America. He is the editor of The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (1983) and Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics (1985), and the author of Compulsive Beauty (1993) and The Return of the Real (1996).