{"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","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/jeffrey-spalding-abcs-of-pop-art-america-britain-canada-fsu-2000","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}