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Mark Francis& Hal Foster This article is about the comic strip artist. For the art critic and Princeton professor, see Hal Foster (art critic).
Harold ("Hal") Rudolf Foster (August 18, 1892 in Halifax, Nova Scotia – July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American cartoonist most famous
 

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Mark Francis is a London curator and writer, Hal Foster a Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton: the two combine forces in POP. Pop described art, film, photography and architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims.

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 from the 1950s through the 50s, which used mass media and mass production as inspiration. Other histories have presented Pop art as an isolated form: POP surveys all its various forms around the world, providing a rich key to the art and influences of artists from Warhol to Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke (born February 13 1941) is a German post-modern painter and photographer. Life and works
Polke was born in Oels in Lower Silesia. He fled with his family to Thuringia in 1945 during the Expulsions of Germans after World War II.
. Full-page black and white and color examples appear throughout, but it's the rich, in-depth art and cultural survey which sets POP aside from any other.
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