POP ART

Left: Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956)
Richard Hamilton (British Pop Art)

Right: Campbell Soup Can (1960s) Andy Warhol (American Pop Art)

★ Although Pop Art has often been regarded as an American phenomenon, it was first introduced in print in 1958 by the English critic Lawrence Alloway, but for a somewhat different context that its subsequent use. During the 1950s, the Independent Group, including Alloway and other designer artists, met at in London for a discussion focused around popular (thus, Pop) culture and its implications -such entities as Western movies, science fiction, billboards, and machines. In short, they focused on aspects of temporary mass culture and were centered on its current manifestations in the U.S. (Arnason 478)

★ After a period of postwar austerity, fifties Britain began to experience new levels of prosperity that created a mass market for consumer and cultural products. American popular culture was embraced as a liberating force by a new generation who had little time for restricting exclusivity of "high culture," a notion that included not only aristocratic classicism but also the pleasures of modernist abstraction. (Arnason 479)

☆Few British Pop Artists☆
Richard Hamilton
David Hockney
Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor

☆Few American Pop Artists☆

Jasper Johns
Roy Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol

Resource: H.H Arnason History of Modern Art (5th Edition)

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