Toledo Museum of Art  Toledo, OH  419-255-8000 or or
800-644-6862    The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of
the Sixties   Born in a time of the British Invasion, space
exploration, bomb detonation, and presidential assassination,
popular culture in the 1960's defined America as the decade in
which we became a world power, driven by consumer wants. The
time was ripe for national change in the political world and the
art world. Material possession was at an all time high, and the
race was on to keep up with the Joneses. The exhibition, "The
Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties," which
opens June 2 and runs through August 13, 2000, is a celebration
of the period.  The subject matter of the Pop Art multiple, an
editioned original, usually made using mass-production
techniques, was instantly recognizable and widely available. Pop
artists took a commercial approach to their work by elevating
common, everyday objects such as Campbell's Soup cans and Brillo
Pad boxes into art with super-real