Response to Money Book Chapter 12

This section is so weird for me. They talk about artists. From my guess, this may have something about the value of art with a value of money. Or it may have something with the popularity of the money and issue of counterfeiting the currency. With an introduction of Roy Lichtenstein, the author introduces us the idea of the pop art movement in the America. The core idea of the pop art movement is pop, which can refer to the thing people like. For example, people like the money; people are using dollar bill frequently. The using of money as an art help people experience more in their daily activities, which is movement from the making invisible become visible to pop art.

Later, the authors introduced us Andy Warhol, who is also leading artist in a pop art movement. What he did are replication and re-organized position. There is also an image of artwork done by Mr. Warhol, which is a replication of dollar bills. It is made from print-making to form some kind of the idea of freedom. The freedom of making the money and the organizing it. In this part, the authors give us some knowledge of free capitalism by Milton Friedman. It emphasizes the idea of the free market which as I know is raised by Adam Smith. Let us go back to 1960s, the WW2 just ended, President Roosevelt have lots of action on governmental controls since the idea of free market fails. However, due the recovery of the economy, people still seek the idea of freedom. Therefore, the pop art may also reflect the notion of the free from government control. At the end of this section, it is about the relationship between free economy and pop art. He talks about the power of money as well as the power of art to spread an idea.