Logged out
Access All our Essays in an Instant
Swap your work for FREE access, or pay £4.99 for instant access
The first pop artists came from the Dada movement, for example, the French artist Marcel Duchamp and the German artist Kurt Schwitters.
Member rating: No Rating | Words: | Submitted: Wed Aug 13 2003
Page Preview
On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:
The first pop artists came from the Dada movement, for example, the French artist Marcel Duchamp and the German artist Kurt Schwitters. Duchamp used everyday objects and took them out of their usual contexts to exhibit them as art. He would retitle the objects "to declare its change of function from a utilitarian purpose to an aesthetic or conceptual one". Duchamp claimed that he did not choose his objects for esthetic reasons and that instead his choices were based on "visual indifference with at the same time a total absence of good or bad taste." Some of the most controversial pieces were 'Fountain' which was a urinal, and 'In Advance of the Broken Arm', which was a snow shovel. Pop art itself emerged gradually in the mid-1950s. But it was only after the exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York in 1962 that it established itself...
To see the full version of this document, and 143,615 others
