Afterword Afterword Pop Art is conceptual.
Pictures become things and things become pictures.
The American critic Billy Kluever, who knew many of the Pop artists personally, described them as factualists . Kluever characterizes the sixties generally as a period dominated by the belief in facts, by the tendency to see objects, conditions and feelings as facts . For Pop Art, the realism of a world of things in which hierarchies are absent, symbolizes the social emancipation of art and the artist. A Retrospective Index Put on the Web by Tom Staudek .