Bring together fashion, democracy, and the machine, and pop culture is a part of what results. Pop culture is therefore part of an economic process which is likely to go on developing. Fashion is made instantly available to the widest possible market. It uses up visual ideas with alarming appetite. The hallmark of fashion is no longer elaboration, but novelty and impact.
Pop culture involves a shift in attitudes towards the object.
Objects are no longer unique. We know that most of the things we se are made in identical thousands, each indistinguishable from the rest. We tend to value things, not for their own sake, but in terms of e jobs they perform. A Pop picture is often a frozen event - it comes across to us instantly, and then has made its point. After Duchamp's Readymade , art was never the same again.