Location
WC1B 3DG
Dates
This exhibition CLOSED on Sun, 18th Jun 2017
This exhibition has finished.
Cost: £16.50
Description
This exhibition looks at the ppast six decades in USA history, which have been among the most dynamic and turbulent, from JFK’s assassination, Apollo 11 and Vietnam to the AIDS crisis, racism and gender politics.
Responding to the changing times, American artists have produced prints unprecedented in their scale and ambition.
Starting with the explosion of pop art in the 1960s, the exhibition includes works by the most celebrated American artists. From Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Ed Ruscha, Kara Walker and Julie Mehretu – all boldly experimented with printmaking. Experience this extraordinary history through their eyes.
Taking inspiration from the world around them – billboard advertising, global politics, Hollywood and household objects – American artists created highly original prints to rival their paintings and sculptures. Printmaking brought their work to a much wider and more diverse audience.
The sheer inventiveness and technical ingenuity of their prints reflects America’s power and influence during this period. Many of these works also address the deep divisions in society that continue to resonate with us today – there are as many American dreams as there are Americans.
This exhibition presents the Museum’s collection of modern and contemporary American prints for the first time. These will be shown with important works from museums and private collections around the world.
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