The Pop Years
"Everybody looks alike and acts alike and we're getting more and more that way", said Andy Warhol summarising the urban, media and publicity aesthetic emerging from the post-war society. This consumer society became a new challenge for the artists who set out to reconquer life and reality.
The Pop Years brought art into daily life by borrowing its icons, myths and objects - Playboy's playmate became a new Odalisque or did in fact the opposite happen?