Past Exhibitions: 2005Pop!June 5–September 25, 2005 Beginning in the mid-1950s and peaking during the 1960s, the artistic movement known as Pop art has had a lasting impact on art of the later twentieth century. Drawing inspiration directly from contemporary society—including cheap consumer goods, comic books, movie and television entertainment, and advertising—Pop artists often focused on mundane imagery and referenced the buoyant mood and boom atmosphere of the post-World War II economy. Such seminal figures as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann, and Claes Oldenburg, were among the movement’s leaders who created a defiantly new art form that has been among the most influential of the past fifty years. Examining great works of Pop art from the the 1950s to 1972 against the social values, political events, and shifting aesthetics of the time, this exhibition revisits the impact of Pop art and argues for its continuing relevance in the twenty-first century. Pop! is made possible in part by Borders Group, the Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan, Michigan Radio and Michigan Television, the Ann Arbor News, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, the State Street Area Association, the Kerrytown District Association, the Main Street Area Association, and the Friends of the Museum of Art.
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