Varieties of Belatedness and Provincialism: Decolonization and British Pop

• Autores: Leon Wainwright
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 35, Nº. 2, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Art and the Cultural Field, 1939�69 Edited by Lisa Tickner and David Peters Corbett), págs. 442-461
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The social and political changes that arose from decolonization have been largely overlooked in the study of British pop art. The focus has tended to be on how Britain coped with a feeling that it was lagging culturally behind the United States. In fact, these elements are linked. The end of empire, when pop art emerged, was marked by the anachronism of Britain’s pretensions to be a global power and by the reality of its growing provincialism. A politics of belatedness and provincialism energized the stances of the artists who emerged from the Royal College of Art: canonized fi gures such as Peter Blake, David Hockney and R. B.

    Kitaj, and their classmate and contemporary, British Guiana-born artist Frank Bowling. Various forms of alterity were made fashionable, while further ‘outsider’ identities – Bowling’s among them – were misrecognized as irrelevant. These discriminations drawn around a history of migration, transatlantic exchange and decolonization reveal a deeper logic of space and time for the history of pop.