Pop Art and Beyond

Highlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long Sixties, this book offers a new critical reading of Pop for the 21st century. 'a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on Pop art' - Jo Applin, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London Featuring an array of rigorous chapters that examine the work of over 20 artists from 5 continents, Pop Art and Beyond transcends the borders of individual and national contexts, and suspends hierarchies to create a space for the work of artists like Andy Warhol and the women of the Black Arts Movement to converse. Casting an inclusive look at the intersectional complexities of difference in Pop at a moment that gave rise to a plethora of radical social movements and identity politics, it contributes bold new perspectives on Pop's heterogeneity. While this book introduces revelatory non-canonical artists into the Pop context or amplifies the careers of others, it is not limited to the confines of fine art. Chapters explore the intersecting variables of oppression and liberation in rituals of youth subcultures as well as practices across media with Pop sources and parallels ranging from Native American objects, Harlem advertisements, and Cordel literature, to stand-up comedy, music, fashion, and design. Pop Art and Beyond thus widens the conversation about what Pop was and what it can be for contemporary art in its struggle for social justice and critiques of power.

Mona Hadler is a Professor of Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA. A specialist in postwar art and visual culture, she is the author of the 2017 book Destruction Rites, Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture. Kalliopi Minioudaki, PhD, is an independent scholar and curator, specializing on postwar art from a transnational feminist perspective. She was coeditor of Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists (2010), and has written extensively on women artists from Pop's expanded context, including Teresa Burga, Marie-Louise Ekman and Niki de Saint Phalle.

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki 1. Cults or Subcultures? Reckoning with Collective Creation in the English Pop World by Thomas Crow 2. The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown by Manthia Diawara 3. Yugoslav Pop, Female Artists, and the Emergence of Feminist Agency by Lina Dzuverovic 4. "Everything for Money": Warhol, Kant, and Class by Anthony E. Grudin 5. Pop Art's Comic Turn and the Stand-Up Revolution by Mona Hadler 6. Tom Max's "Okinawan Inferno": Reversion and After by Hiroko Ikegami 7. Following the Traces of Yemanjá: Pop Art, Cultura Popular, and Printmaking in Brazil by Giulia Lamoni 8. Facing the Maid: Gendered Shades of Labor in American Pop by Kalliopi Minioudaki 9. The Commonwealth of British Pop: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Politics in Frank Bowling's Mother's House Series by Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani 10. Market Wares and Trade Marks: Painting Pop in Indian Country, 1964 by Kristine K. Ronan 11. Entangled Mythologies: Race and Class in Hervé Télémaque's Pop (1963-5) by Marine Schütz 12. Snap! Crackle! Pow!: Robert Colescott and Pop Art by Lowery Stokes Sims 13. Against the Heroes: Revolution, Repression, and Raúl Martínez's Cuban Pop Art by Mercedes Trelles Hernández 14. Myriam Bat-Yosef: World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era by Sarah Wilson 15. Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow: Feminism and the (Pop) "Image" in Chicago's Black Arts Movement by Rebecca Zorach Index