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capitalist realism

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  • noun art A pop art movement, that is an allusion to socialist realism.
  • noun art A satirical reference to pop.

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Possibly coined in 1963 when it was used as the title of an exhibition in Düsseldorf by Gerhardt Richter, Sigmar Polke and Konrad Fischer-Lueg.

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