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SCRIPT: "You've never had it so good," the Prime Minister of Great Britain reminded an audience in the late Fifties. By every measure--social, economic and technological--he was right. [devastation] After the catastrophe and devastation of World War II, the entire industrial world had picked itself out of the rubble [boom] and was about to embark on an economic boom of unparalleled proportions. [consumer] Economic expansion led to a consumer revolution--something which the United States, largely untouched by the war, had been enjoying for ten years already. [mass] Mass communication, mass consumption--[popart] a consumer society emerged producing icons so pervasive that their reinterpretation would prove irresistible to a whole generation of artists. |
