Pop in the West

Question 1

origins of pop art

Answer 1

1, Beat Culture, disenchantment with suburban middle class 
2, The Independent Group, London.

Question 2

Peter Blake, Self Portrait with Badges

Answer 2

1961

fan culture, denim, Elvis magazine

Question 3

Wallace Berman, ‘Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag’

Answer 3

1964
collage aesthetic
James Brown song

Question 4

Andy Warhol, Supermarket exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery, New York

Answer 4

1964
signed Campbell’s soup tins, collected for the shopper
high art = commodity

Question 5

Wallace Berman, Factum Fidei

Answer 5

1957
raided by police
contravened decency laws

Question 6

Claes Oldenburg, The Store

Answer 6

1962
cardboard and charred burlap
buy for a low price
relationship between monetary exchange and exchange of objects

Question 7

‘This is Tomorrow’

Answer 7

Peter Smithson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Alison Smithson and Nigel Henderson

Question 8

Richard Hamilton, ‘Just what…’

Answer 8

1956
modern day Adam and Eve
cinema, pre-civil rights
political

Question 9

Roy Lichtenstein, Look Mickey

Answer 9

1961
1950s images
graphic designers, details become abstract
are we just variations on commodities?

Question 10

Eduardo Paolozzi, Psychological Atlas

Answer 10

1947-1953

Question 11

Tunafish Disaster

Answer 11

1963
sensationalist stories
tell us something about modern day consumerism
so efficient in telling the story, v pared down
immediately rethink the tabloid

Question 12

Marilyn Diptych

Answer 12

1962

repetition