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