{"title":"Joe Tilson","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoe Tilson (born 1928, London) trained at St Martin's and the Royal College of Art before spending formative years in Italy and Spain. He emerged as a central figure in British Pop Art in the early 1960s, producing screenprints, reliefs and multiples that drew on mass communication, signage, popular imagery and the visual language of information systems. His work from this period — ladders, peepholes, coded messages, stencilled letters — is simultaneously playful and structurally rigorous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the early 1970s, Tilson had moved decisively away from Pop toward myth, landscape and ecology, developing a sustained engagement with ancient Mediterranean cultures that would occupy him for decades. He is a Royal Academician and his work is held in major public collections internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe printed matter gathered here documents a practice that moved through several distinct phases without losing its underlying commitment to the handmade, the symbolic and the politically engaged.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jeffrey-spalding-abcs-of-pop-art-america-britain-canada-fsu-2000","title":"JEFFREY SPALDING — ABCs of Pop Art: America, Britain, Canada, Museum of Fine Arts FSU, 2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Spalding, \u003cem\u003eABCs of Pop Art: America, Britain, Canada — Major Artists and Their Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e. Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 2000. Square paperback; 64 pages, 21 × 21 cm; colour and black-and-white offset printing; metallic silver wrappers. ISBN 1-889282-07-3.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compact institutional survey of Pop Art organised alphabetically across artists from America, Britain and Canada. Reproductions are paired with short biographical and collection records, turning a sprawling movement into a sequence of discrete, easily circulated entries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom America: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg anchor the canonical history, alongside Tom Wesselmann, Arman, George Segal, Robert Indiana, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Jenny Holzer, Alex Katz, David Salle, Wayne Thiebaud and David Gilhooly. From Britain: Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and Eduardo Paolozzi as founding figures, with Patrick Caulfield, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj, Joe Tilson, Peter Phillips, John Latham, Bruce McLean, Tony Cragg and Michael Craig-Martin. From Canada: Iain Baxter, Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland as central figures, alongside David Buchan, Greg Curnoe, Gathie Falk, Dennis Burton, Attila Richard Lukacs, Tony Urquhart, John Will, David Gilhooly, Chris Cran and Russell Yuristy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design is particularly of its moment: metallic silver covers, red-and-blue consumer imagery, outlined typography and an interior somewhere between exhibition catalogue, directory and reference manual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePop Art reorganised as an alphabet. Artist, image, nationality, biography, collection: a movement broken down into portable units of information. The familiar American\/British history is expanded to include Canada, with figures including Iain Baxter, Michael Snow and David Buchan entering the same classificatory system as Warhol and Hamilton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication does more than document a canon. Through selection, naming and adjacency, it participates in constructing one. Pop’s own mechanisms — reproduction, repetition, graphic shorthand and mass circulation — are used to package Pop itself. The artwork becomes reproduction. The artist becomes entry. The movement becomes index.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good to very good. Light rubbing and handling wear to the metallic wrappers, minor edge and corner wear and a few faint surface marks. Interior clean from inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54216388477266,"sku":"SPALDING-MOAFAFSU-CAT-2000","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Spalding_Jeffrey.ABC_sofPopArt_America_Britain_Canada_MajorArtistsandTheirLegacy_Paperback_January1_2000.jpg?v=1786289051"},{"product_id":"tilson-winner-siebdruck-workshop-haus-am-waldsee-berlin-1970","title":"JOE TILSON \/ GERD WINNER — Siebdruck + Workshop, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 1970","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition catalogue published for the joint show of Joe Tilson and Gerd Winner at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 31 October–29 November 1970. Softcover with black card covers and a narrow red cloth spine, 36 pages, 20 × 18.5 cm. Contains a foreword by Pat Gilmour and Thomas Kempas, an introduction to screenprinting, artist biographies and exhibition histories, and 16 illustrations including two screenprints. German language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book has the authority of a workshop manual. Inside, Rolls-Royces, refuse trucks, road markings and political halftones briefly occupy the same industrial register. At the turn of the 1970s, Tilson was moving beyond the metropolitan polish of British Pop toward politics, landscape and myth. Winner, a German artist working closely with London’s urban machinery, translated lorries, docks and municipal systems into sharply controlled photographic screenprints. Here, their practices meet just before pulling decisively apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good vintage condition, with light handling wear consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haus am Waldsee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54249802727762,"sku":"TILSON-WINNER-WALDSEE-CAT-1970","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Tilson_Joe.Winner_Gerd.Showcatalogue.1976.jpg?v=1786608646"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/joe-tilson.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}