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'High and Low': modern art meets popular culture. (various artists; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; 20th century popular arts)

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'High and Low': modern art meets popular culture Latrine duty is dirty work, but in the army somebody has to do it. The buck private, howeveR, was determined it would be someone else. He had talents for higher things, things the Army could use: he could draw. Finally he got a chance to submit his portfolio. The officer who saw it, and who also did his own drawing in civilian life, got him transferred to a section that made posters and signs.

It was 1947 and the private was Roy Lichtenstein, who was to become famous as the artist who turned images derived from action comic books into Pop Art paintings. Mustered out into the art world, he was to far outrank the ...

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