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Splat Boom Pow! The influence of cartoons on contemporary art

From september 17 2003 to january 4 2004
Contemporary art
Comics
The exhibit demonstrates through the work of over sixty works by well-known artists (Murakami, Roy Lichenstein, ...), or some on the way to becoming famous, th einfluence of cartoon strips on three generations of contemporary artists.Some artists, hiding behind these imaginary characters, can carry criticism of contemporary society, but it is also a way of writing a new page of art history.

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Admission :
Admission fee :  6 $
Concessions :  4 $ Students, Over 55
Free : Children, Museum friends, Thursday afternoon
Kerry James Marshall, Rythm Mastr, 1998, collection of the artist. © Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
MORE INFORMATION :
Catalogue, essays by Valerie Cassel, Roger Sabin, Bernard Welt