From the emergence of pop art in the 1950s through to its reinvented forms in the 1980s, this book explores the dynamic engagement of art with popular culture. Drawn from major public and private collections around the world, this book includes over 180 works by 77 artists including pivotal works by artists such as Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter and Hockney. Beginning with early pop art in the United Kingdom, Europe and America, it proceeds through the key years of high or classic pop in the 1960s and early 1970s including a substantial Australian component and finishes with a new generation of artists who began exhibiting in the late 1970s with works dating up to 1986

• Pop to popism / Wayne Tunnicliffe
• Wayne Tunnicliffe
• Michael Desmond
• Chris McAuliffe
• Wayne Tunnicliffe
• Justin Paton
• Anneke Jaspers The future is now : origins of pop art / When Britain went pop : British pop art / A brand new world : American pop art / What was Euro pop? : European pop art /Ann Stephen
• The easel did not go pop, it went bang! : Australian pop art / A divided consciousness : pop art after 1968 / Art of the second degree : post pop and popism /