Proto Pop in the UK

Looking for the beginnings of what would become known as Pop Art

For many, the term Pop Art immediately evokes the colourful, screen-printed canvasses of Andy Warhol, the enlarged comic-book panels of Roy Lichtenstein, perhaps big, soft sculptures by Claes Oldenburg. These are well-known emblems of the movement as it manifested when Art Went Pop! in the USA,where such undeniably important exponents of Pop were progressing the ideas of their British antecedents such as Sir Eduardo Paolozzi — thought of as the progenitor of ‘Pop’, and Richard Hamilton —…