Most would imagine Pop art as a distinctly British and American consumerist revolt. Hear the word "Pop," and it will probably call to mind gimmicky, eye-dazzling Warhol Campbell's soup cans and polka-dotted weeping woman by Lichtenstein.

But the movement, which flourished in the ’50s and ’60s, also had a profound—and often understudied—impact across South West and East Asia. A new survey at the Sharjah Foundation seeks to correct this record.

“Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular” traces the movement across the region through more than 100 works from South Asian artists hailing from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and their various diasporas. Spanning painting, installation, sculpture, collage and more, the show is a collaboration with New Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. Its co-curators are Roobina Karode, director of that museum, and Iftikhar Dadi, an artist and professor at Cornell University.

Unlike most exhibitions of Pop art, which focus on its mid-century zenith, this is an intergenerational group, better illustrating how the visual language has been circulated. However, like most exhibitions of the genre, it’s exuberant, packed with bright comic color, bold graphic lines, and hyperbolic emotion. There’s humor and pathos and anger.

Perhaps more than anywhere else in the modern age, South Asia has suffered from the fast fashion industry and the global craving for commodity. The collected artists know—maybe can't forget—that consumerist satisfaction is fleeting, so this is an art movement without end.

Click through to see images of some of the works.