Pop Art
1955–1972 · Event
Warhol, Lichtenstein and Hamilton lifted imagery from advertising, comics and supermarkets, collapsing the wall between high art and mass culture.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, United Kingdom (combined), USA, England
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
Around 1955
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Korean War (1950)