Published May 2010.

Published May 2010.

* An in-depth survey of the rise of Pop from the Beat era of the 1950s to the psychedelic late 1960s

* Includes founding artists of Pop art such as Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and many others

* Edited by internationally recognized expert on Pop art and its cultural context, Mark Francis, together with an analysis of the Pop image provided by renowned critic and scholar Hal Foster

*Providing coverage of American and European artworks as well as film, photography and architecture, this is the most comprehensive survey on Pop in all its forms** About the author(s)**

Mark Francis is a London-based curator and writer. A director of Gagosian Gallery, he was formerly Chief Curator of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and its Founding Director. In 2001 he directed and edited the catalogue for the exhibition 'Les Années Pop', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and a former Senior Editor of Art in America. He is the editor of The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (1983) and Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics (1985), and the author of Compulsive Beauty (1993) and The Return of the Real (1996).