Pop Art Design, a major new exhibition at the Barbican exploring the cross-pollination of art and design during the Pop Art era, opens on Tuesday 22 October until February 2014.
Exploring Pop Art's interaction with design
Presenting around 200 works by over 70 artists and designers,
Pop Art Design highlights art and design's mutual exchange of ideas during the post-war period from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Focusing on this dynamic dialogue, it reveals how designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Gaetano Pesce and Allen Jones had an important influence on the output of Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Peter Blake - as well as vice versa.
In its thematic layout, the exhibition reveals Pop Art’s adoption of a design language, popularised by the mass production of everyday objects and advances in communication technologies. Design motifs are shown to be evident in the Pop artists’ bold and colourful responses to Western consumerist culture, everyday life and celebrity.
A wealth of iconic and lesser known artworks and design pieces will be displayed as part of the exhibition. Graphic material, from posters and magazines to album sleeves, as well as film, photography and documentation of Pop interiors and architecture will also be shown.
Featured artists, in addition to those mentioned above, include Evelyne Axell, Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist, all of whom are represented by DACS for Copyright Licensing.
Find out more about Pop Art Design
Pop Art Design opens on Tuesday 22 October 2013 until 9 February 2014. A programme of talks, workshops and activities will run in conjunction with the exhibition.
Visit the Barbican website to find out more and book tickets.
If you would like to reproduce artwork by any of the above artists, apply for licence online or contact us.
Image: Evelyne Axell, 'Ice Cream 1', 1964, Private Collection © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2013