TY - BOOK AU - Hendrickson,Janis AU - Lichtenstein,Roy TI - Roy Lichtenstein: 1923-1997, the irony of the banal T2 - Basic art series 2.0 SN - 9783836532075 U1 - 709.2 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Köln PB - Taschen KW - Lichtenstein, Roy, KW - Pop art N1 - Originally published: 1994; Translated from the German; Formerly CIP N2 - In the late 50s and 60s, American painter Roy Lichtenstein became one of the most important exponents of Pop Art, that movement which transformed products of mass consumption and the entertainment industry into subjects for art. This apotheois of banal, everyday objects simultaneously constituted a criticism of the traditional elitist understanding of art. Almost alone among artists, Lichtenstein pursued the question of how an image becomes a work of art ER -