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Elmaleh, Eliane. "American Pop Art and Political Engagement in the 1960's." European Journal of American Culture 22. (2003): 181-191. EBSCO. Web. 10 Nov. 2008. This article describes the Pop Art movement in America. Pop art in the United States is an artistic movement closely associated with the 1960's. Pop Art, to most Americans, is an artistic movement that is closely related to their own culture. This article looks into Pop Art's role in the American Culture.

Small, Sabrina. "What's Eating Andy Warhol? Food and Identity in Pop Art." Program in Gastronomy (2006): 400+. OhioLink. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. This article is an overview of some of Warhol's pieces. This is a Description of Andy's works and how his art topics relate to mass produced items in the US, like soup and Hershey bars. His art work reflects the population of America and civilized cultures around the world. Most of his art pieces are Pop Art genre. Many of his pieces reflect American culture/society.

Menand, Louis. "TOP OF THE POPS." New Yorker 85.44 (2010): 56-65. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article focuses on the "top" pop artists.  It provides Andy Warhol's biography.  It discusses some of the most famous books written about him, and even his own book.  It also comments on several of his most famous pieces of art, including his famous Campbell's soup can painting.  Andy Warhol was a puzzling individual as well as artist; people are still trying to uncover why his art was not affected by the different economic times; people were continuing to pay more and more for his work, no matter what their economic status was at the time.

Furnham, Adrian, and John Walker.  "Personality and Judgements of Abstract, Pop Art, and Representational Paintings."  European Journal of Personality, vol. 15, issue 1 (2001): 57-72.  Web.  15 Nov. 2009. This article is an interesting study conducted by Adrian Furnham and John Walker to see "which personality variables are most predictive of judgments of particular types of painting" (Furnham, Walker 1).  They conducted this by having a totally of 124 people judge 24 pieces of art.  The artwork was abstract, pop art, or representational paintings.  This article gives insight in looking into Warhol's life; as his intentions in his work are often very hard for one to uncover.  

Moffat, Charles. "The Prince of Pop Art." www.arthistoryarchive.com. November 2007. Web. November 10. This site describes Andy's life, from his childhood, to the time that he began his art, to the time that he died. It also describes Andy's personality and how it is connected to his artwork. This page also is about Andy's afterlife and about the Andy Warhol Museum that opened in his hometown. Also, the page contains many quotes of Andy Warhol.

Shanes, Eric. "The Pop Art Tradition: Responding to Mass Culture." Parkstone Press International (2006): Ohiolink. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Shanes traces the roots of popular mass culture in the late 18th century when the industrial and political revolutions industrialized the Western World. Pop Art is said to have originated from Surrealism in Britain when Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Blake, and Richard Hamilton began exploring comic books, advertising, and folk culture. Artist, Claes Oldenberg, began works of art that connected to "store exhibitions," which filled galleries with common American objects. This emphasized and worshiped consumer goods.

Beaty, Bart. "Roy Lichtenstein's Tears: Art vs. Pop in American Culture." Canadian Review of American Studies 34.3 (2004): 249-268. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 9 Nov. 2010.

McCarthy, David.  "Andy Warhol's Silver Elvises: Meaning through Context at the Ferus Gallery in 1963".  The Art Bulletin, vol. 88, No. 2 (2006): 354-372.  Print. This article focuses on Andy Warhol's influence across the country.  He had recently emerged as one of the most prominent pop artists from coast to coast.  It talks about his anticipation of the display of his second exhibition at the prominent Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.  It also talks about how although he was an artist highly associated with particular style, each piece of his artwork held its own.

Goldman, Susan. "Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter." Publishers Weekly (2006): 52-53. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Rubin describes her thoughts on Andy's childlike personality and how it is reflected in his art. Leonard Kessler thought that Andy would wone day be a teacher. Leonard Kessler was a classmate of Andy's. Bob Colocello states that, "Children were drawn to Andy." He would often carry around a giant teddy bear, he loved children television programs, and he would create giant silkscreen paintings of his favorite cartoon characters. His art often reflected his personality and his life.

Inglis, Ian. "'The Beatles are coming!' Conjecture and conviction in the myth of Kennedy, America, and the Beatles." Popular music and society 24.2 (2000): 93. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article is quotes many sources on the arrival of the Beatles to America in 1964, a year after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The article suggests that the Beatles were a "breath of fresh air" to help move the country out of their state of mourning. The article also talks about the factors that contributed to the groups' success in the 1960s. The band's music appealed to a wide variety of people. Their songs blended together rock and roll, pop, soul, and blues music. The structure of the sound was very different than American pop during that time period. There was not just a lead singer with a background band; all of the Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison contributed to each chart-topping single.

Wallace-Wells, David. "Factory Man." Newsweek 154.24 (2009): 66-68. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article focuses on critics of pop art and Andy Warhol.  One critic is quoted saying, "You're a killer of art, you're a killer of beauty, and you're even a killer of laughter".  Warhol was not concerned with how he looked to others; he only cared about his work portraying what he saw important.  It also talks about the assassination attempt on Warhol.

This is a review on the pop-art artist Roy Lichtenstein. The review starts out by saying that Roy Lichtenstein is one of the first people to have a massive exhibit while he is still alive, and one would think that his art would be amazing because of this (one critic in particular does not like his work and calls it dumb and awkward.) The author of this review goes on to tell us a little bit about Lichtenstein's life, his style and his artwork. She then talks about the art that Roy Lichtenstein creates, "it would seem quite dull if it were not for the jazzy images he has appropriated from a wide range of twentieth-century sources in both high and low art." This article is a good starting point about getting to know the artist and how his art is viewed. 

This is a short encyclopedia entry. It tells you the basic facts about Roy Liechtenstein, and is a good starting point for a paper. Its says that he was a "master of pop art," and based his art off of comic strips. He had very different styles of art through the different decades. In the 70's he concentrated on reinterpretations of well-known paintings. In the 80's and 90's he he focused on brush strokes and painting on large canvases.

Boime, Albert. "Roy Lichtenstein and the Comic Strip." Art Journal 28 (1968-1969): 155-159. JSTOR. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. This article talks about 

Punte, Maria. "Andy Warhol Genius, eccentricities just 'pop.'" USA Today. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. A brief summary of his artwork, such as the soup can and how Andy Warhol's life played into his art work. Andy Warhol was a weird, brilliant man. He was a hoarder, and this article briefly describes how this may have reflected in his work. Warhol had a messy life, and Tony Sherman and David Dalton tried to sort it out. Warhol was practically afraid of everything, Punte states. Warhol was insecure about his homosexual self, and even more about his artwork.

Danto, Arthur. "Andy Warhol." Yale University Press (2009): Ohiolink. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Arthur Danto sees Andy Warhol as the "Artist of the second half of the 20th century," and the "artist laureate of the American soul." He describes how Andy Warhol drew/painted many symbols of post war America and describes Andy Warhol's work in two levels: "the level of fears and agonies, and the level of beauties. The level of plane crashes, suicides, accidents, executions; and the level of Marilyn, Liz, Jackie, Elvis, Jesus, radiant with glamor and celebrity." Warhol moved from commercial art to pop art. Danto explains how Warhol's art relieved anxiety in American society and culture."He was moved by the same things that his audience was moved by," states Danto.

Gower Price, Charles. "Sources of American Styles in the Music of the Beatles." American Music 15.2 (1997) : 208-232. JSTOR. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article explores the American influences in the Beatles music. The band took in a range of influences from American mainstream pop and rock and roll musicians including: Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley. The Beatles first debuted in America on the Ed Sullivan Show in New York City. The article suggests that British rock derived from American music. The article provides information of the Beatles cover on artists such as: Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly. It also includes quotes from Paul McCarthy and John Lennon on how they were inspired by these artists. With the combination of so many artists and genres of music, the Beatles were able to diversify their sound so that they can relate to all of their fans.

Schwartz, Alexandra.  "Andy Warhol and 'Flash'".  MoMa.  The Museum of Modern Art, 1974. 6. Print.