Pop Art Revisited.(exhibitions, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and Menil Collection, Houston)(Brief Article)

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Back in the '6os, I used to think that Pop art had sprung, fully formed, from the head of Leo Castelli at 4 East Seventy-seventh Street and that its shocking, larger-than-life newness was the birthright of an exclusive club whose charter members were Lichtenstein, Warhol, Rosenquist, and Oldenburg. For most New Yorkers at the time, art across the Atlantic was so beyond the pale that it might just as well have been from another planet. Despite Sidney Janis's "New Realists" show in 1962, with its French contingent, or the realization that Richard Hamilton's ...

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