1947: Eduardo Paolozzi: I was a Rich Man's Plaything

Although the term "Pop Art" was not established until the mid-1960s, the foreshadow was in this collage by Paolozzi, comprised of pages from magazines given to Paolozzi by American servicemen. It is a part of a series titled "Bunk", based on the Henry Ford statement that ''History is more or less bunk.... We want to live in the present''.

By the 1960s, this reflexivity to contemporary culture was amped up twenty years later in the series by Martha Rosler titled Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, 1967-72, where pages from House Beautiful were collaged together with grisly and disturbing images from the Vietnam war.