The Collection. International movement in painting, sculpture and printmaking.
The term originated in the mid-1950s at the ICA, London, in the discussions held by the Independent group concerning the artefacts of popular culture. This small group included the artists Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi as well as architects and critics. Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990), the critic who first used the term in print in 1958, conceived of Pop art as the lower end of a popular-art to fine-art continuum, encompassing such forms as advertising, science-fiction illustration and automobile styling. Pop Art. Postwar Context In the years following World War II, America enjoyed an unprecedented period of economic and political growth.
Many middle class Americans moved to the suburbs, spurred by the availability of inexpensive, homes. A new kind of music, rock and roll, burst into and became the soundtrack of teenage rebellion. Marilyn Monroe was a reigning star, and television replaced radio as the dominant media outlet. But by the late 1950s and early 1960s, a revolution was underway, led by activists, thinkers, and artists who sought to change, and even overturn, what was, in their eyes, a stifling social order ruled by conformity.
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