Pop Art Inside Le Bar Des Oiseaux, On A Narrow Backstreet In Old Town, Nice, France Editorial Image

Pictured one of many pieces of pop art inside Le Bar des Oiseaux, on a narrow backstreet in old town, Nice, France. Known as the Birds Bar, it has been in business since 1961, serving as a popular nightclub before reincarnating itself as a restaurant under the ownership of local entrepreneur Armand Crespo. Pop artists borrowed imagery from popular culture—from sources including television, comic books, and print advertising—often to challenge conventional values propagated by the mass media, from notions of femininity and domesticity to consumerism and patriotism. Their often subversive and irreverent strategies of appropriation extended to their materials and methods of production, which were drawn from the commercial world.