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Book SynopsisAnne Massey is Professor of Design and Culture at LCC, University of the Arts London, UK.
Alex Seago is Dean of the School of Communications, Arts and Social Sciences at Richmond, The American International University in London, UK. Previously he lectured in Cultural History at the Royal College of Art, UK.
Trade ReviewThe next stage in the ever-expanding study of Pop Art—in Britain or anywhere else—should begin with this volume. Its editors and contributors offer vital, cogently presented expertise in design, dress, education and deep popular culture, without which no future Pop scholar or interpreter should proceed. * Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University, USA *
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Anne Massey and Alex Seago
1. Popular art, Pop Art, and ‘the boys who turn out the fine arts' Catherine Moriarty
2. Cecil Beaton, Richard Hamilton and the Queer, Transatlantic Origins of Pop Art Dominic Janes
3. Althea McNish and the British African diaspora Christine Checinska
4. Programming Pop Art and Design Anne Massey
5. ARK Magazine: the Royal College of Art and early British Art School Pop Alex Seago
6. Prologue to Edward Wright, ‘Chad, Kilroy, the cannibal’s footprint and the Mona Lisa’ first published in ARK 19 (Spring 1957) Ann Pillar Facsimile of article Edward Wright
7. Pauline Boty: Pop Artist, pop persona, performing across the ‘long front of culture’ Sue Tate
8. A Dedicated Follower of Fashion’ Alistair O’Neill
9. 'Where is this pop?' In Search of the British Pop Poster Rick Poynor and Alex Seago Index
