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A 3 page paper which takes the critical responses of Peter Selz and Allan Kaprow and offers a third critical response. The topic is pop art. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a voice for modern man, depicting images of society such as consumerism. Two critics of pop art are Peter Selz and Allan Kaprow, who is also an artist. The following
paper examines the opinions of the two, which are essentially very opposite views, and then presents a view that is in the middle concerning pop art. Selz and
Kaprow It was once stated by Selz that pop art works "leave us thoroughly dissatisfied...most of them have nothing to say... they are hardly worth the contemplation a real work
of art demands" (What is Art?, 2004). And, in an interview he stated, in relationship to works such as Andy Warhols, that such art "does reflect human experience. But its
an unimportant, banal kind of experience" (Karlstrom, 2004). In essence, while Selz is admitting that the pop art culture was expressing a kind of experience and making kind of a
social statement, what it was expressing was really of no importance and no significance. With Kaprow, an artist himself who was well immersed in the pop art world, we
get the impression that he heralded this movement as powerful in terms of where it could take an artist who had the ability to express themselves. While no direct quotes
were found, and no interview was discovered, from the involvement of Kaprow we can see that he is a man who believes that pop art is a very significant and
powerful form of art that expresses modern man and thus is an important experience. Response In the opinion of this particular writer both points of view are quite
valid. Salz is quite accurate in stating that most of the pop art that was very popular did nothing but state the obvious, or make money on a very pointless
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