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The movement that put soup cans in the museum. Pop Art traces the rise of the revolt that peaked in the 1960s and quietly redefined what art could be, where it could come from, and who got to decide. The book follows Pop Art's evolution from a rebellion against mainstream artistic convention into a full-scale interrogation of modern society, consumerism, and the role of the artist. Epitomized by Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, the movement drew on mass-market sources, advertising, and the banal and kitsch — collapsing the boundary between high and low culture in ways the art world has never fully recovered from. The movement that pulled art into the everyday. Show more