Consumer Culture and Still Life: British Pop Art

7 Aug 2024

Overview

Discover how American consumer culture influenced British artists of the 1950s and 1960s with assistant curator, Miriam O’Connor Perks.

Join us for a fascinating online talk delving into the impact of American consumer culture on British artists during the dynamic decades of the 1950s and 1960s.

Discover how the post-war period in Britain sparked a resurgence of idealism, and how artists like Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Jann Haworth, and David Hockney used pop art to reflect the era’s optimism and aspirational identity.

Explore how British pop art, music, and mass media converged to shape a new cultural landscape, and how still life art evolved to capture the proliferation of consumer goods and changing economies. You can see examples of these works in our exhibition, The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain.

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