1940-1960 Chronology By TatianaBrindle 1917 Duchamp 'Fountain' 1940 Mondrian leaves to New York 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbour 1942 First papers of Surrealism appear in New York 1943 Jackson pollock's first exhibition NYC 1945 Two atomic bombs dropped on Japan// WW2 ends 1946 'White manifesto' Lucio Fontana 1947 Pollock begins his 'drip' paintings 1952 Rosenberg coins the term 'Action painting' 1956 'This is Tomorrow' Whitechapel - birth of pop art 1956 This is Tomorrow White Chapel Gallery 1956 Richard Hamilton: Just What is it Today that makes Todays Homes so Different, So Appealing 1960 Minimlaism 1961 Berlin Wall 1961 Peter Blake: Self Portrait with Badges 1962 Warhol paints Marilyn Monroe 1962 Warhol: Marilyn Diptych 1963 USA gets involved in the Vietnam War 1969 Neil Armstrong first man on the moon 1970 Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, Great salt lake 1976 Carl Andre: Equivalent VIII brought to Tata