Stoeipoes and role model. The woman had a remarkable double role in the pop art art of the sixties. Images of sex symbols such as Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot were eagerly interspersed with work in which the traditional role of women in society – behind the counter – was critical. Women were the embodiment of a stereotype, a desirable ideal image and, during the second feminist wave, also grew into a symbol of liberation, the POP Models exhibition shows in Gorssel.

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