Art and Context: The '50s and '60s
Bruce, Chris / Dyke, Nella Van / Wells, Keith A.
Prior to the 1960s, art objects were viewed as wholly distinct from non-art. But by mid-decade, that perspective was being challenged by artists such as Andy Warhol, whose Brillo Boxes looked exactly like the real ones, Roy Lichtenstein, whose paintings imitated comic book pages, and Carl Andre, whose floor sculptures were, in fact, slabs of industrial metal. Art and Context examines how these pieces, and others like them, relate to a society ...