'The Popular Image’ Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1963
Catalogue of the exhibition ‘The Popular Image’ Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 23 October – 23 November 1963. Organised by the ICA in collaboration with the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, ‘The Popular Image’ was the first comprehensive exhibition of American pop art in Britain.
The ICA’s then director Julie Lawson wrote to Sonnabend during the exhibition run stating that: ‘reactions from visitors are rather mixed – either they rave about it or don't care for it. But even those who don’t like it personally consider it interesting’. Critic for the Observer Nigel Gosling wrote that the exhibition ‘presents us for the first time with a peep at the American pioneers of what in this country became known as Pop Art, and it is a disturbing sight.’
The artists exhibited were: Allan D’Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, John Wesley and Tom Wesselmann.
In his catalogue essay Alan Solomon discussed how American Pop had emerged from the fabric of everyday life and culture. Robert Rauschenberg, he wrote, “was the first to acknowledge positively the necessity for reconciling art and life, for breaking down the isolation of art from conventional modes of experience, for accepting art as a significant condition of life, rather than adjunct to it.”
Title: The Popular Image
Author: with an essay by Alan Solomon, then Director of the Jewish Museum, New York
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good.
Catalogue of the exhibition ‘The Popular Image’ Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 23 October – 23 November 1963. Organised by the ICA in collaboration with the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, ‘The Popular Image’ was the first comprehensive exhibition of American pop art in Britain.
The ICA’s then director Julie Lawson wrote to Sonnabend during the exhibition run stating that: ‘reactions from visitors are rather mixed – either they rave about it or don't care for it. But even those who don’t like it personally consider it interesting’. Critic for the Observer Nigel Gosling wrote that the exhibition ‘presents us for the first time with a peep at the American pioneers of what in this country became known as Pop Art, and it is a disturbing sight.’
The artists exhibited were: Allan D’Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, John Wesley and Tom Wesselmann.
In his catalogue essay Alan Solomon discussed how American Pop had emerged from the fabric of everyday life and culture. Robert Rauschenberg, he wrote, “was the first to acknowledge positively the necessity for reconciling art and life, for breaking down the isolation of art from conventional modes of experience, for accepting art as a significant condition of life, rather than adjunct to it.”
Title: The Popular Image
Author: with an essay by Alan Solomon, then Director of the Jewish Museum, New York
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good.
Catalogue of the exhibition ‘The Popular Image’ Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 23 October – 23 November 1963. Organised by the ICA in collaboration with the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, ‘The Popular Image’ was the first comprehensive exhibition of American pop art in Britain.
The ICA’s then director Julie Lawson wrote to Sonnabend during the exhibition run stating that: ‘reactions from visitors are rather mixed – either they rave about it or don't care for it. But even those who don’t like it personally consider it interesting’. Critic for the Observer Nigel Gosling wrote that the exhibition ‘presents us for the first time with a peep at the American pioneers of what in this country became known as Pop Art, and it is a disturbing sight.’
The artists exhibited were: Allan D’Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, John Wesley and Tom Wesselmann.
In his catalogue essay Alan Solomon discussed how American Pop had emerged from the fabric of everyday life and culture. Robert Rauschenberg, he wrote, “was the first to acknowledge positively the necessity for reconciling art and life, for breaking down the isolation of art from conventional modes of experience, for accepting art as a significant condition of life, rather than adjunct to it.”
Title: The Popular Image
Author: with an essay by Alan Solomon, then Director of the Jewish Museum, New York
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good.
