Lawrence Bender

Une fiche de travail est téléchargeable : artfile-p.99. Il s’agit d’un texte sur Pop Art. Corrigé artfile-p.98 Pop Art had its roots in the England of the late 50s, but is now more associated with the United States of the early 60s. English art critic Lawrence Alloway was the first to use the term “Pop” to describe this form of art that makes use of the objects, materials and technology of mass production: the fruits of our industrial society with their brash colours and hard lines – depersonalised, two-dimensional

new experiences or exotic searches or expeditions for lost continents, “jungle” and “desert” epics, treasure hunts, disaster films, or searches for the unknown. Examples: Apollo 13, The Deep, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Little Big Man, Lawrence of Arabia, Robinson Crusoe, Water World... k Epics (historical dramas, war films) often cover a large expanse of time and deal with an historical or imagined event, mythic, legendary, or heroic figure. War films show the horror and heartbreak of

to this expedient long ago. Dumas's novel of The Iron Mask turns on the brutal imprisonment of Louis the Fourteenth's double. There seems little doubt, in our own history, that it was the real General Pierce who shed tears when the delegate from Lawrence explained to him the sufferings of the people there--and only General Pierce's double who had given the orders for the assault on that town, which was invaded the next day. My charming friend, George Withers, has, I am almost sure, a double, who