The 1950’s saw a massive shift in attitude toward certain elements in art that were, until that point, considered to be congruent with its definition.  The usual conventions of sophistication, abstraction and romance were challenged in the wake of the mass culture and advertising that followed WWII.  As in the way the Dada movement reflected WWI Europe, the Pop Art movement sought to celebrate the banal, consumerist landscape of Britain and America by using ironic imagery as means of cultural contemplation.

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       NOV.      16th        2010           H   O   L   I   D    A   Y              A   U   C   T   I   O   N                  NOV.        16^th