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The emergence of Pop Art in the late 1950s and early 1960s was one of the most liberating moments in the history of art. Its explicit endorsement of the new culture of technology and consumerism demolished the heroic, subjectivist aspirations of previous avant-garde movements and reintegrated art and the real world.
With the incessant reciprocal exchange between art and every manner of objects from visual and popular culture, Pop Art brought an end to the division between “high” and “low” culture and opened up a new debate over the relationship between the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic.
For Pop Art, any image was recyclable, and every object could become art. Its true objective was to offer a new interpretation of the image in contemporary culture.
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The emergence of Pop Art in the late 1950s and early 1960s was one of the most liberating moments in the history of art. Its explicit endorsement of the new culture of technology and consumerism demolished the heroic, subjectivist aspirations of previous avant-garde movements and reintegrated art and the real world.
With the incessant reciprocal exchange between art and every manner of objects from visual and popular culture, Pop Art brought an end to the division between “high” and “low” culture and opened up a new debate over the relationship between the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic.
For Pop Art, any image was recyclable, and every object could become art. Its true objective was to offer a new interpretation of the image in contemporary culture.
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