The UK National Archives currently have a very nice online exhibition on the Art of War. It has quite a range of materials and includes decent sized quality images as well as ‘zoomable’ versions. All quite competently assembled! It also has a good range of the “comic” style art which would probably get called “POP art” these days. They remind me of Lichtenstein’s Whaam! which is hanging right over my desk as I type this.
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Funny thing being Lichtenstein has been villified by several prominent comics artists for ripping off other artist’s work for his own gain. I actually like his stuff, but when you see original comics panels which are totally identical it makes you think, hold on…
by Joe - May 24th, 2007 @ 8:35 amAbsolutely, he was a complete rip-off artist. However, it doesn’t make his stuff not good.
I used to have a t-shirt with a gundam on it which was a rip off of a rip off
Gundam Whaam
by Adam B - May 25th, 2007 @ 3:41 pm