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POP ART AND THE CRITICS
Mahsun, Carol Anne Runyon. Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I. Research Press, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. 152pp, 22 b&w illustrations. With a bibliography. Issued as the twenty-third installment of U.M.I. Research Press' "Studies in the Fine Arts: Criticism", this scholarly monograph presents an in-depth examination of the critical response to the Pop Art movement of the sixties, primarily within the context of its New York practitioners. The principal artists covered are Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Tom Wesselmann, and of course, Andy Warhol, while the critics under discussion include Lawrence Alloway, Mario Amaya, Rainer Crone, Umberto Eco, Michael Fried, Henry Geldzahler, Clement Greenberg, Max Kozloff, Hilton Kramer, Lucy Lippard, Barbara Rose, Harold Rosenberg, Alan Solomon, and Susan Sontag. A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition. 0-8357-1809-3 Inventory Number: 013000