Radoslav Putar, “Pop Art Op Art: Art or Trend,” translated from Croatian by Terence McEneny, originally published as “Pop-art Op-art,” in 15 Dana 9–10 (1965): 12–13

This chapter discusses American Pop art in relation to European Op art. It is one of several influential writings on Pop art in Yugoslavia from this period. In the light of everyday individual cultural praxis, a new contrast has appeared in the area of developing contemporary art history. This contrast may not be correctly posed or historically objective. And yet, it has appeared in our view as a question for immediate study. Despite the fact that both names and abbreviations arose in the usage of journalists, there is nothing to prevent these terms from taking root in the language and being adopted as definitive. Pop art rose to prominence during the second half of the 1950s in the United States, where it was partly an outgrowth of early reactions to Abstract Expressionism, such as the Action painting of Jackson Pollock and others.