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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

pop art a movement that first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism . British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express formal abstract relationships. By this means they provided a meeting ground where artist and layman could come to terms with art. Incorporating techniques of sign painting and commercial art into their work, as well as commercial literary imagery, pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol attempted to fuse elements of popular and high culture to erase the boundaries between the two.

Bibliography: See L. Alloway, ed. Modern Dreams: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Pop Art (1988).

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