Campbell's Souper Dress

1966-7; screen print on cotton paper; in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose description of the piece follows.

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As art historian Marco Livingstone has stressed, Pop Art was never a circumscribed movement with membership and manifestos.

Rather, it was a sensibility emergent in the 1950s and rampant in the 1960s.

Andy Warhol (who began his career as a fashion illustrator) had been painting Campbell's soup cans since 1962.

Such advertising icons, along with cartoons and billboards, yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday.

Fashion quickly embraced the spirit of Pop, playing an important role in its dissemination.

The paper dresses of 1966-7 were throwaways, open to advertising and the commercial.