ABSTRACT
Atanas Stoykov was a leading ideologue in the field of art criticism in communist-era Bulgaria. Two countries dispute the right to be the homeland of Pop art—this new phenomenon in modern debased art. These countries are England and the USA. With regards to Pop art, certain Western art historians sometimes use the notion of “urban legend.” They mean that the images, or more commonly the collections, compositions of objects are taken from the daily life of the big city. Art critics such as Pierre Restany sometimes refer to Pop art as the “New American Humanism.” Thus a number of bourgeois art historians refer to it as Neo-Dadaism. However, Dadaism possessed a number of, albeit spontaneous and largely unrealized, elements of anti-capitalism. The current Neo-Dadaists are not creating anything new in principle, nor do they offer any critical elements towards the surrounding capitalist reality.
