Pioneers of Part-Art (POPA at MOMA) Exhibition Invitation

Popa at Moma was unusual in having been conceived and organised by undergraduate members of the Oxford University Art Club (OUAC). Rupert Legge and Mark Powell-Jones applied to the ACGB in early 1970 for a one-off grant of £120.36. Their proposal, originally entitled Art of the Id, made ambitious claims for a new genre of art, which could uniquely stimulate the direct interplay of ideas between the artist and the observer, culminating in a spontaneous burst of energy, a desire to respond and give back directly to the work.