A movement comprising initially British, then American artists in the 1950s and 1960s. Pop artists borrowed imagery from popular culture—from sources including television, comic books, and print advertising—often to challenge conventional values propagated by the mass media, from notions of femininity and domesticity to consumerism and patriotism. Their often subversive and irreverent strategies of appropriation extended to their materials and methods of production, which were drawn from the commercial world.
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Why Did Andy Warhol Make Cow Wallpaper?
Here are 10 things to know about the Pop artist’s iconic, absurd work.Apr 17, 2024 -
The Assembly-Line Effect: Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans
Read an excerpt from MoMA’s One on One series, focusing on the artist’s innovative use of commercial screenprinting techniques.Aug 4, 2023 -
Everything Is Illuminated: Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver’s Immersive Cinema
From discos to eBay, a curator and a conservator talk about reconstructing a work first seen in a ’60s Tokyo nightclub.Feb 17, 2021
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