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Nostalgia is an unusual emotion to be associated with something as aggressively twentieth-century as Pop Art, and certainly in critical terms the word tends to be perjorative. However, Peter Blake accepts the charge that he is nostalgic, but for him it stands as a synonym for affection, rather than a melancholic recollection. His subject matter ranges from pop singers, wrestlers, movie stars etc. yet these images undergo a transformation, they become part of his world, without entirely losing the flavour of their origins. (Andy & Friends, 1999)