British pop art show opens at Christie's

Fifty-six years after Richard Hamilton first coined the term "pop art" – he described it as popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky and glamorous – the first London exhibition devoted solely to British exponents has opened.
There has never been a big British pop art show in the capital, where much of it was made, while the only one in the UK was a touring show from Germany that visited York in 1976.
It was a remarkable fact, given "the Brits started this whole movement," said Lock Kresler, an American who has helped curate the London exhibition, which has more than 140 works by artists including Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, David Hockney, Allen Jones and Peter Blake.
British pop art show opens at Christie's