Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
2015•1h 30m•8.0•Released
Documentary
Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, peeling back pop's frothy, ironic surface to reveal an art style full of subversive wit and radical ideas. In charting its story, Alastair brings a fresh eye to the work of pop art superstars Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and tracks down pop's pioneers, from American artists like James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg and Ed Ruscha to British godfathers Peter Blake and Allen Jones. Alastair also explores how pop's fascination with celebrity, advertising and the mass media was part of a global art movement, and he travels to China to discover how a new generation of artists are reinventing pop art's satirical, political edge for the 21st century.
Director
Jude Ho
Languages
English
Studio
Channel 4 Television
Cast
Alastair Sooke
Presenter
Peter Blake
Himself
James Rosenquist
Himself
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