Pop Art emerged directly from America’s self-celebration as trademark culture.

Evidence

A new sensibility, dubbed Pop Art, reveled in Daniel Boorstin’s despairing observation that America’s “business” was the making of illusions. American artists embraced the image, and the nation celebrated itself as trademark. In the weeks following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Sidney Janis Gallery opened an International Exhibition of the New Realists. Among the American artists were Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, and Andy Warhol, who had his first New York solo show at the Stable Gallery in November. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 406

Categorization

• XREF: Boorstin’s ‘making of illusions’ frame connects to the reader’s shelf on media/image critique.