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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

THE TRIUMPH OF POP IN THE 21ST CENTURY

«Artists at that time still did not use the word to refer to what they themselves did; when the Independent Group talked about Pop art they were still refering to mass commercial culture itself., and in January 1957 Richard Hamilton produced a now famous list of its qualities: popular (designed for mass audience, transient, expendable, low cost, mass produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business".


-Simon Wilson
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