Pop Art Design, Moderna Museet, Stokholm, 2013

The time of birth for the term “pop” in relation to art can be specified almost to the day. “Pop Art” was the controversial subject of a symposium held on 13 December, 1962, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Artists in the UK and the USA had been challenging established traditions and hierarchical structures ever since the 1950s, with a new aesthetics, culled from the life and people around them, from mass and popular culture.