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Professor Foster is an acknowledged expert on modernist art and architecture, and has a particular fascination with Pop art. His wide-ranging lecture on Roy Lichtenstein is a gripping engagement with the multiple aspects of the artist&#8217;s work: the conjunctions of art and technology, the satirical playing with previous modernist styles, and the sinister background of the military-industrial complex.  <b>Also available in the series:<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Roger Fry&#8217;s Journal: From the Primitives to the Post-Impressionists: Watson Gordon Lecture 2006<\/i>   9781906270117 <i>Sound, Silence, and Modernity in Dutch Pictures of Manners: Watson Gordon Lecture 2007<\/i>  9781906270254 <i>Picasso&#8217;s &#8216;Toys for Adults&#8217;: Cubism as Surrealism: Watson Gordon Lecture 2008<\/i>  9781906270261<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wide-ranging, gripping lecture on Roy Lichtenstein offers a gripping engagement with the multiple aspects of the artist&rsquo;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6080","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-hal-foster","8":"publisher-national-galleries-of-scotland","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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