The First Pop Age : painting and subjectivity in the art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha by Hal FosterPublication Date: 2011-11-13
Beautifully illustrated in color throughout, the book reveals how these seminal artists hold on to old forms of art while drawing on new subjects of media. As The First Pop Age looks back to the early years of Pop art, it also raises important questions about the present: What has changed in the look of screened and scanned images today? Is our media environment qualitatively different from that described by Warhol and company? Have we moved beyond the Pop age, or do we live in its aftermath?