ART & between Popular Culture & The Quotidian Object

"I am for an art that is political-erotic-mystical, that does something else than sit on its ass in a museum." Claes Oldenburg:

-- 1961

In the early 1960s, when pop art detonated in New York City, it blasted the dreary earnestness right out of the art world (at least for a few seconds). When it first hit, pop was the rock-and-roll of art (and rock was still an angry toddler). Like rock, it reset the culture clock, rewrote the rules, recast the performers -- awop-bop-a-loo-bop-awop-bam-boom! And after the fluorescent dust settled and the glimmering, giggling debris stopped bouncing around, out of the ground-zero crater crawled pop art's own Fab Four: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and, last but most, Claes Oldenburg.

SEE:

http://www.salon.com/bc/1998/12/22bc.html