Donald Factor, the son of Max Factor Jr., and an art collector and co-editor of avant-garde literary magazine Nomad, wrote an essay in the magazine's last issue, Nomad/New York. The essay was one of the first on what would become known as pop art, though Factor did not use the term. The essay, "Four Artists", focused on Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg. [36]

The paintings of Lichtenstein, like those of Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and others, share a direct attachment to the commonplace image of American popular culture, but also treat the subject in an impersonal manner clearly illustrating the idealization of mass production. [10]

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Dutch Pop Art & The Sixties – Weg met de vertrutting!". 8weekly.nl. 28 July 2005 . Retrieved 30 December 2015. By contrast, the origins of pop art in post-War Britain, while employing irony and parody, were more academic. Britain focused on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American pop culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while simultaneously improving the prosperity of a society. [6] Early pop art in Britain was a matter of ideas fueled by American popular culture when viewed from afar. [4] Similarly, pop art was both an extension and a repudiation of Dadaism. [4] While pop art and Dadaism explored some of the same subjects, pop art replaced the destructive, satirical, and anarchic impulses of the Dada movement with a detached affirmation of the artifacts of mass culture. [4] Among those artists in Europe seen as producing work leading up to pop art are: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Kurt Schwitters. Selz, Peter (moderator); Ashton, Dore; Geldzahler, Henry; Kramer, Hilton; Kunitz, Stanley and Steinberg, Leo (April 1963) "A symposium on Pop Art" Arts Magazine, pp.36–45. Transcript of symposium held at the Museum of Modern Art on December 13, 1962.a b c d Gopnik, A.; Varnedoe, K., High & Low: Modern Art & Popular Culture, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1990 Lawrence Alloway, "The Arts and the Mass Media," Architectural Design & Construction, February 1958. Yayoi Kusama interview – Yayoi Kusama exhibition". Timeout.com. 30 January 2013 . Retrieved 30 December 2015.