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Contemporary Pop
Art since the 1980s that revives Pop's embrace of consumer goods, cartoons and celebrity, often at industrial scale and with a darker edge.
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Pop art of the 1960s treated soup cans, comic strips and film stars as fit subjects for serious art. A second wave, often called Neo-Pop, arrived in New York in the mid-1980s. Jeff Koons cast an inflatable toy in polished stainless steel for Rabbit (1986) and displayed new vacuum cleaners in lit acrylic cases, while Haim Steinbach arranged shop-bought goods on sleek wall shelves.
The idea soon travelled. In Japan, Takashi Murakami drew on anime, manga and merchandising to define Superflat around 2000, and his smiling flowers moved freely between canvas, sculpture and fashion collaborations. In Britain, Damien Hirst's medicine cabinets, begun in the late 1980s, borrowed the tidy look of pharmacy shelving. KAWS, who started out altering bus-shelter posters in the 1990s, now makes giant cartoon figures in fibreglass and bronze. Look for flawless finishes, borrowed brand language and humour that sits close to unease.
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