1940-1960 Chronology

  • Duchamp 'Fountain'

  • Mondrian leaves to New York

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbour

  • First papers of Surrealism appear in New York

  • Jackson pollock's first exhibition NYC

  • Two atomic bombs dropped on Japan// WW2 ends

  • 'White manifesto' Lucio Fontana

  • Pollock begins his 'drip' paintings

  • Rosenberg coins the term 'Action painting'

  • 'This is Tomorrow' Whitechapel - birth of pop art

  • This is Tomorrow White Chapel Gallery

  • Richard Hamilton: Just What is it Today that makes Todays Homes so Different, So Appealing

  • Minimlaism

  • Berlin Wall

  • Peter Blake: Self Portrait with Badges

  • Warhol paints Marilyn Monroe

  • Warhol: Marilyn Diptych

  • USA gets involved in the Vietnam War

  • Neil Armstrong first man on the moon

  • Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, Great salt lake

  • Carl Andre: Equivalent VIII brought to Tata