Pursuits
Lichtenstein’s Comic Explosions, Mickey Mouse Rock Tate
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Like many revolutionaries, the late Roy Lichtenstein was at heart a bit of a conservative.
Superficially, his introduction of the graphic formulae of comic books into serious art looks subversive. Actually, as a spectacular new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern makes clear, everything he did was from the most highbrow of motives.