(2024)
Pop art? How could it play a part in the art of the future? It is bland. It is pure. It uses elements of common life without comment, and so, by accepting the misery of this life and its aridity so mutely, it condones them.
Pop and Op are both dead, however, because they confine themselves, through the media which they employ, to the older functions of art, of decorating and suggesting grandeur, whatever their detailed content or their artists’ intentions.
Pop and Op are both dead, however, because they confine themselves, through the media which they employ, to the older functions of art, of decorating and suggesting grandeur, whatever their detailed content or their artists’ intentions.
exerct from The Something Else Newsletter,
Intermedia by Dick Higgins / February 1966
Intermedia by Dick Higgins / February 1966
pop art was a movement that made use of everyday elements and used popular images and attitudes from mass cultures, creating a break with previous movements.
in this context, a mundane object would be used en masse in the city - a clothesline - and it would be used in a common way but with unusual parts.
from the coloring of the fabrics (from white to navy blue) to the print of the text on the fabrics.