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'''{{w|Pop art}}''' is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

 

* People keep on wanting fetish figures, and things like that are very popular. That’s pop art. There was an enormous resistance to Abstract Expressionism and there still is to that school, which is not dead at all. But pop art came as a reaction to that because kids can’t paint abstract expressionism unless they’re under five year of age. Because it really is tremendously hard work and it’s very challenging. But the point is, people love an immediately recognizable word – if you put a word in anything, they lie it.. ..I am not interested in culture at all. Once a work of art has gotten into the culture, its dead as far as I’m concerned. I think there is a difference between art and culture. Or as the sage once said, “Art is what we do; culture is what is done to us.

** [[Carl Andre]] in: ''Artists talks 1969 – 1977'', ed. Peggy Gale, The Press N.S.C.A.D, Nova Scotia, Canada 2004 pp. 22-23

** [[Pauline Kael]], ''State of the Art,'' (1985) "A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece," review of ''The Moon in the Gutter'' ([[1983-09-19]]), p. 48.

 

** [[Jeff Koons]] in: Graeme Green. "[http://metro.co.uk/2007/07/18/60-seconds-jeff-koons-532798/#ixzz3bThr2XKI 60 SECONDS: Jeff Koons]," at metro.co.uk, 2007/07/18

** [[Norman Mailer]], ''Cannibals and Christians'' (1966); Introducing our Argument

 

** [[Igor Stravinsky]] and Robert Craft (1982). ''Themes and Conclusions'', Berkley: University of California Press. p. 188.