Eh Joe

Tilson
Pop to Present 
Royal Academy of Arts
London, 2002

I've posted some of these before but this catalogue has better images and the work still looks mighty fine.

No Sleep Tilson

A couple of films about Joe Tilson, the first culled from an episode of the BBC's Monitor arts programme in 1964, showing the artist in London during the full bloom of Pop.

 

The second film from the BBC's Private Landscapes series of artist profiles shows a more hirsute Joe 12 years older, disillusioned with consumer society, living and working in the Wiltshire countryside.

Pop Book Box

Image as Language
Aspects of British Art 1950-1968
Christopher Finch
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middx, 1969

A graduate of Chelsea School of Art, Christopher Finch (b.1939) worked as designer for New Worlds magazine and also wrote about contemporary art in many journals and books. This book on British Pop Art covers most of the usual suspects, and despite suffering from rather lackluster black and white reproductions, Finch presents some interesting thoughts on Pop's relationship with the culture and media of the period.

I particularly like Joe Tilson's A-Z Box of Family and Friends (1963), in which Tilson constructed the box and asked his Pop chums such as Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and so on, to contribute items to fill it.

Joe Tilson

Joe Tilson (b.1928) was well known as part of the British Pop Art scene in London in the 60s. He grew disillusioned with consumer society and became part of the 'back to the land' movement when he moved from London to Wiltshire in 1972, where he created the work seen here. More Pop Magus than Pop Larkin.

He now lives and works mostly in Italy. Nice.