Nuclear War?! There Goes My Career!
Mark Vallen
Art for a Change
Shock Battalion
Silkscreen, 1982
Los Angeles, California
9526

Based on: Roy Lichtenstein’s Drowning Girl and others of this style

Lichtenstein’s Pop Art combines the triviality of pulp romance with its stereotypical rhetoric, and the patent artifice of the Ben-day dots and dialogue bubble, characteristic of the cheap color reproduction technology of comic books. Vallen combines public fears of a nuclear war with a critique of those too self-centered to recognize their responsibility for the state of the world.