pop art

Touch the Art: Pop Warhol's Top
$9.95
My one year old daughter LOVES this book, and, as a lover of pop art, so do I! The big, bold illustrations are great, and the things to touch and feel on each page are perfect (Marilyn's eyelashes, and Lichtenstein's sticky mustard bread are the favorites in my house). The words are pretty lame, but we just make up our own to go along with it. I love that this book has different sensory objects than your usual fake fur and sand paper. Definitely recommend this book!

Pop Art (Taschen 25th Anniversary)
$14.99
While the works of art reproduced in this book are numerous and colorful, the accompanying text is not very useful for anybody looking for an actual resource on the subject of pop-art. Sure, the book reads like a historical account and a scholarly analysis of the genre, but after about 20 or 30 pages it becomes clear that the typo-ridden text is moving in circles, finding new ways to repeat the same arguments page after page. Many of the artworks printed in the book are never discussed in the text, and several of the works discussed in the text are not pictured in the book. Buy this if you're looking for a coffee table book, not if you're trying to do research.

Pop Art: A Critical History (The Documents of Twentieth-Century Art)
$36.95
To put it briefly, I concur with the review from the Library Journal which the editor of the book quotes below. This is the best anthology of critical writing on Pop, and it largely supersedes previous ones such as Carol Mahsun's Pop Art: The Critical Dialogue. My only quibble is with the assertion in the editorial introduction that the work of Jim Dine and Tom Wesselmann is somehow "less incisive" (read "less impressive") than that of the "four-headed goliath named Lichtenstein-Oldenburg-Rosenquist-Warhol". It isn't, and neither is it less Pop than that of the goliath.

Pop Art (Basic Art)
$9.99
Pop artists of the 1960s, heralded by the Great Andy Warhol, commented on everything from mainstream media to consumer society to advertising to product packaging with colorful and often comical works. Pop Art's profound influence on contemporary art and culture remains prominent today. Nowhere else can you find so much Pop Art in such a compact, stylish book!