ABSTRACT
While Lady Bird Johnson waxed poetic about the power of the birds and the trees, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol were taking lessons they had learned from their billboard and advertising work and making art of the masses that they called pop.1 Surely this was not the aesthetic the ladies had in mind when they spoke of beauty. If pop art entered the purview of civic beautifiers at all, it stayed within the confines of the museum, fixed to art as an object even if its sources were drawn from the art of everyday life.
