What Was Pop Art, the 1960s Art Movement that Changed Art History?

By all appearances, Pop art is the quintessential American genre, born of Hollywood, Madison Avenue, comic books, and a mid-century cornucopia of TVs, cars, and appliances. Its marquee names—Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg (among a host of others, including female artists such as Rosalyn Drexler, Marisol Escobar, and Marjorie Strider)—were all based in New York City, the world’s art capital at the time. But while they became synonymous with Pop