Pop Art

And to this day, Pop Art, like Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, has its fervent advocates on both the Left and the Right.

G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

In this sense, Pop Art is the direct descendant of Magritte's painting of a pipe with the French words inscribed at the bottom: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" "This is not a pipe."

G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

As the Culture Wars and the ever-spiraling prices of blue-chip art entrench the Professional Left of universities and journalism against the Corporate Sponsorship of Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Pop Art, the three art movements become identified with mainstream patronage.

G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

In this sense, Pop Art is the direct descendant of Magritte's painting of a pipe with the French words inscribed at the bottom: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" "This is not a pipe."

G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

And to this day, Pop Art, like Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, has its fervent advocates on both the Left and the Right.

G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

As the Culture Wars and the ever-spiraling prices of blue-chip art entrench the Professional Left of universities and journalism against the Corporate Sponsorship of Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Pop Art, the three art movements become identified with mainstream patronage.

G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

Drawn to the tormented improvisations of Abstract Expressionism, dominant when he was in his 20s, then to the found-object conceptualism of Duchamp, and finally to the smooth talk of Pop Art, he never resolved the quarrels among the aesthetics.

Major Actor, Minor Artist 2010

McCarthy's unique language of Pop Art, performance, Minimalism and Disneyland was at its best.

ART BASEL EXCLUSIVE: By Bettina Korek 2010

And he is galled by Pop Art. First he trumpets how he, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollack trounced the Cubists.

Stage Door: Lend Me A Tenor, Red 2010

In this sense Pop Art contained its own advertising material, perfect fodder for a distracted and prosperous culture that was oversaturated with visual stimulation and that was losing the habit of quiet, careful looking.

Attack of the Hipsters 2010