Pop Art Looks Out Into The World By David Bitt

'Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world'- Roy Lichtenstein. Pop Art is an art movement best known for the art work of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol as well as the movement that led to Postmodernism. In Pop Art artist usually includes Hollywood movies, advertising, pop music, and comic books. A lot of the books talk about this art movement.
In Modern Art by David Bitt explains the three major characteristics of Pop Art as well as the art in New York, The West Coast, The Great Britain and The Continental Europe. The book goes into more detailed information about New York artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and many more. The West Coast artists that are

Artist such as Tom Wesselmann, Mel Ramos, Allen Jones and Steve Gianakos are mentioned as examples of such artwork. The author then talks more about how that in the late 1970’s Oldenburg was given the opportunity to give form to his idea, Oldenburg work is symbolic, and due to it being symbolic it was easy for his work to be against him. The author ends it by talking about the great David Hockney and how now that Picasso, Warhol, Salvador Dali and even Francis Bacon are all dead, Hockney is probably the best-known artist that is still alive. Hockney was recognized very early, he is known as one of the most authentic Pop Artists. The author goes into more details about Hockney life, how his life was when he first moved to USA and about one of his best-known works the Los Angeles

H. Arnason and Marla F. Prather explains how the Pop generation responded to the media image that the Abstract Expressionists chose to ignore like Andy Warhol Said " The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second- comic, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerator, coke bottles- all the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice". The authors start talking about the Pop Art in Great Britain and that often Pop Art is regarded as an American phenomenon but what most don’t know is that it was discovered in Britain in mid- 1950's. Then the authors goes into more details of how Pop Art was discovered and that the term Pop was first used in print by Lawrence Alloway in 1958.The authors the start talking about different artists in the Great Britain these artists are Richard Hamilton, Edouardo Paolozzi, Peter Blake, R. B. Kitaj and David Hockney. Then they move on to the Neo- Dada and Pop Art in the United State and how in specially 1960's Pop Art had a natural appeal to American artists. Couple of artist and there art work are talked under the Neo- Dada and Pop Art these artists are Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper