PopSockets

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The exhibition catalogue brings together 40 top works from the Matthys‐Colle private collection, which S.M.A.K. received on long‐term loan, and the S.M.A.K. museum collection.In 2019, the Flemish Community acquired Great American Nude 45 (1963) by Tom Wesselmann from the Matthys‐Colle Collection. The purchase was coupled with the long‐term loan of 39 other artworks from the same collection to the museum. This event marked the starting point of a unique and important public‐private partnership in Belgium, from which the exhibition stems. Representative works of pop art from the Matthys‐Colle Collection by Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, Konrad Klapheck and others are brought together with a selection from the S.M.A.K. collection.Pop Art originated in London and New York in the 1950s and was initially a Western phenomenon. As a visual response to the unprecedented consumerism of the 1960s, its imagery was borrowed from the mass media world of advertising, magazines, televi