通过创作者的声音讲述1960年代波普艺术的故事

1965年，英国艺术家、大学讲师约翰·琼斯（John Jones）带着他的妻子和女儿搬到了美国格林威治小镇，并在这里生活了一年。他们花了三个月的时间在西部的公路上旅行，采访了大约100位艺术家。其中小野洋子、克莱斯·奥尔登堡还成为了琼斯的好朋友。虽然琼斯的女儿尼科莱特（Nicolette）当时还很小，但她对这段跨美冒险记忆十分深刻。本书首次在泰特出版社出版，介绍了琼斯在1965到1966年与美国艺术家对话的精彩内容。尼科莱特在前言交代了对话发生的背景，正式介绍部分是从琼斯的讲座中提取的，说明并探索了后来被称为波普艺术的一系列想法。

由于琼斯接触了很多艺术家，且对他们的作品十分了解，琼斯成为了英国波普艺术的重要专家。这些故事不是艺术评论家的评论，而是从创作者口中呈现的艺术。琼斯的访谈探讨了一个特定的地点和时间：20世纪60年代的美国。如果你想了解这十年美国艺术和英国传统之间的影响，或是对当时艺术家如何创作出波普艺术感到好奇，那这本书必不可少。

Tells the story of 1960s pop art through the voices of its creators

In 1965, British artist and university lecturer John Jones left the United Kingdom with his wife and daughters to live in the United States for a year and interview some 100 artists. The family moved to Greenwich Village and spent three months on a road trip west to visit artists beyond the immediate reach of New York. Some of the artists, like Yoko Ono and Claes Oldenburg, became Jones’s personal friends. Although Jones’s daughter Nicolette was young, her memories of New York and their transAmerican adventure are vivid. Published here for the first time, this book presents a fascinating selection of Jones’s edited conversations with American artists practicing in 1965–

66. A foreword by Nicolette contextualizes the setting in which these interviews took place, and a further introduction amalgamated from Jones’s lectures in which he drew on these conversations illustrates and explores the range of contrasting ideas behind what became known as pop art.

Thanks to his personal interaction with the artists and his knowledge of their work, Jones became the foremost expert in the art of this period in the UK. Amid a unique family story, this is art presented not through the filter of art critics, but from the mouths of the practitioners. Jones’s interviews explore a specific place and time: the United States in the 1960s, and are crucial reading for those wishing to understand the decade and the influence of American art and British tradition on each other, as well as anyone curious about the famous figures of the time and the thinking that gave rise to this extraordinarily fertile creative moment.