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1950’s
Growth of television and culture of celebrities
1956
London’s Whitechapel Gallery ‘This is Tomorrow’ exhibition work by Richard Hamilton
1952
Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to explore a shared fascination with contemporary American mass culture
1957
Hamilton described characteristics of works: popular, transient, expendable, low cost, witty
1958
Pop art first used in 1958 by British art critic Lawrence Alloway
1961
Young Contemporaries Exhibition in the UK introduced David Hockney, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield
1962
Roy Lichtenstein, Wesselmen, Warhol had their first exhibitions - Warhol shows 32 canvases of Campbell’s Soup
1961
Lichtenstein is introduced to pop art by comic strips
1962
February issue 89 of All American Men of War by DC Comics, illustrated by Jerry Grandenetti
1963
Began making experimental films using his friends as actors
1953
Gene Korman took photo of Marilyn Monroe for the movie Niagara
