Pop Art and Design

Anne Massey is Professorial Fellow in Design and Culture at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Pop Art and Design (2017), Designing the Modern Interior (2009) and Hollywood Beyond the Screen (2000), all published by Bloomsbury. She is known for her work on the Independent Group and post-war British culture, including The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-59 (1995).Alex Seago is Dean of the School of Communications, Arts and Social Sciences at Richmond, The American International University in London, UK.

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between these two exciting areas.Confronting the all-pervasive 'high art / low culture' divide, Pop Art and Design brings a fresh understanding of visual culture during the vibrant 1950s and 60s. This was an era when commercial art became graphic design, illustration was superseded by photography and high fashion became street fashion, all against the backdrop of a rapidly-evolving economic and political landscape, a glamorous youth scene and an effervescent popular culture. The book's central argument is that pop art relied on and drew inspiration from pop design, and vice versa. Massey and Seago assert that this relationship was articulated through the artwork, design, publications and exhibitions of a network of key practitioners. Pop Art and Design provides a case study in the broader inter-relationship between art and design, and constitutes the first interdisciplinary publication on the subject.

A critical reappraisal of the origins and international flourishing of pop art, one of the most important art movements of the 20th century, focusing on the relationship between fine art and design in the movement's incredible development.

Richly illustrated with colour and black and white images from pop art and design

Introduction - Anne Massey and Alex Seago 1. Popular art, Pop Art, and 'the boys who turn out the fine arts'Catherine Moriarty2. Cecil Beaton, Richard Hamilton and the Queer, Transatlantic Origins of Pop ArtDominic Janes 3. Althea McNish and the British African diasporaChristine Checinska 4. Programming Pop Art and DesignAnne Massey5. ARK Magazine: the Royal College of Art and early British Art School PopAlex Seago6. Prologue to Edward Wright, 'Chad, Kilroy, the cannibal's footprint and the Mona Lisa' first published in ARK 19 (Spring 1957) Ann PillarFacsimile of article Edward Wright7. Pauline Boty: Pop Artist, pop persona, performing across the 'long front of culture'Sue Tate8. A Dedicated Follower of Fashion' Alistair O'Neill9. 'Where is this pop?' In Search of the British Pop PosterRick Poynor and Alex SeagoIndex