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.
Jude Ho
Director
Looking for Richard68%
Marvel's Behind the Mask70%
Britney: For the Record74%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Whitney73%
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap67%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.77%
Harmontown66%
National Gallery73%
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear70%
Gilbert67%
The Class of ‘9271%
Daft Punk Unchained71%
Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated77%
Welcome to Chechnya69%
Supersonic73%
Above Majestic73%
The Wrecking Crew73%
