April 17 – June 15, 1997
Organized from the Smart Museum of Art’s little-known collection of British paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, Blast to Pop explored the complex chronology and diverse artistic traditions of British Modernism.
Featuring over one hundred works by important British avant-garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and William Turnbull, the show explored the period between two defining movements in English Modernism: Vorticism, England’s first abstract art movement, and British Pop art of the late 1950s.
From Blast to Pop: Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915-1965 | Published September 1997 via the University of Chicago Press
This exhibition and related programming were supported in part by grants from The John Nuveen Company and the Pritzker Foundation.
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