Influential Pop artist Richard Hamilton discusses Pop art from a British perspective. He asserts that “what the American painters have, which I…regard as audacious and daring to an extraordinary degree, is to make an art which is expendable.” In doing so, Hamilton claims, these artists put Pop art “into the realm of fine art.” This event took place on October 20, 1963.
Transcript: https://www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/9009112_01-Pop-Art-in-England.pdf
"Inaugural Selection" exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1959. Photo: Robert E. Mates © SRGF
