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Pop artists seemingly embraced the post-World War II manufacturing and media boom.

Whether this suggests an acceptance of the popular world or a shocked withdrawal, has been the subject of much debate. In contrast to the 'hot' expression of the gestural abstraction that preceded it, Pop Art is generally 'coolly' ambivalent. Although Pop Art encompasses a wide variety of work with very different attitudes and postures, much of it is somewhat emotionally removed.Pop artists believed everything is inter-connected, and therefore sought to make those connections literal in their artwork. But it is perhaps more precise to say that Pop artists were the first to recognize that there is no unmediated access to anything, be it the soul, the natural world, or the built environment. It could be argued that the Abstract Expressionists searched for trauma in the soul, while Pop artists searched for traces of the same trauma in the mediated world of advertising, cartoons, and popular imagery at large.

The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop Art. By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop Art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between 'high' art and 'low' culture.

The style council perhaps the best pop group