The Pop Revolution
Alice Goldfarb Marquis was an engaging combination of scholar and journalist critic with little use for the usual obfuscating language so common in the art world. Her eminently readable, anecdote-filled, and good-humored book insightfully describes a revolution Copernican in its impact. Before Pop, the art world resembled, say, the poetry world; afterward it looked an awful lot like the movie business.     --Peter PlagensIt is wonderful to recall the period through this fresh and vivid text that is well written, insightful, focused, thoroughly researched, and informative. Marquis builds the narrative to describe the profound and enduring change in every sector of the art world.  --Charles HinmanI really relished Alice's book. It is the best account I have yet read of the New York art world in the Sixties. She fills in holes I did not realize existed, and writes without ideology or rancor, fully realizing that it was a cultural convulsion rather than just a period in the placid flow of art history. I learned from it so much that I had not known that I did not know, and was thrilled to encounter a quite authoritative account of my own role as a philosopher of art, dealing with work that demanded a whole new way of thought and practice - explosive, as Warhol would say, and inevitable. --Arthur Danto