It was quite stunning at the beginning—the first post-World War II representational reaction to Abstract Art that was not primarily conservative (or antimodernist) in spirit. As the creation of painters conscious of art history, who had assimilated and revealed the influence of Abstraction, these paintings and sculptures of popular icons are primarily aboutArt
(in contrast to commercial art, which is thoroughly worldly). One Pop style, exemplified by James Rosenquist (1933), uses both the scale and...
