How art chronicled the birth – and death – of the American dream

Stephen Bayley | The Spectator | 11th March 2017

Pop’s mass market tastes suited print making and sparked, in America,  no less than “the great renaissance of the print “. The role of Pop in printmaking is also picked up in another review, one that verges on the bad-tempered. Why is the British Museum, “full to the brim with what it owns already”, borrowing works to stage a blockbuster? “Is it some kind of a joke?”  Some images here