Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUMP HOUSE GANG and THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. America's foremost and wittiest pop journalist presents a swinging mixed-media word show of articles about life styles and a nonfictional novel about the peregrinations of Novelist Ken Kesey and his acid-generation Pranksters...
...feed a set of numbers into the computer which activates a mechanical arm which in turn plots designs on paper. Photographs, too, can be analyzed and stored in a computer's memory, then reorganized and distorted on electronic command. The results are often tantalizing facsimiles of op and pop. In addition, computers can be programmed to direct kinetic sculptures through any number of varied cycles...
THERE is a kind of art--playful art let us call it--that is becoming more and more popular as the West declines. This kind of art--it includes Camp, Pop, and a lot of other things I'll talk about later--creates a nervousness in reviewers, an anxiety that the artist is trying to take him in, or put something over on him; he fears he is going to make an ass of himself...
...serious and it's not serious." You understand? Of course. This kind of consciousness has produced a lot of the art of our time, playful art as I have called it. It includes Camp to start with though it is greater than Camp. It includes Pop Art. ("Why that looks like a picture of a soup can, Karen." "Well it is a picture of a soup can." "Oh.") But it is greater than Pop Art. Richard Lester is in the tradition. Bob Dylan is part of it; the Bob Dylan that Joan Baez called the Dada King. (Everybody Must...
...adult world ran pop music, and they didn't want things becoming too loud, or too wild. Pop singers were not, despite their nostalgia, a very talented bunch, and none of them wrote their own music...