Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures

Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures
Title Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures PDF eBook
Author Kobena Mercer
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 236
Release 2007
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a postcolonial lens? This volume casts light on the aesthetics and politics of pop by taking a cross-cultural perspective on what happens when everyday objects are taken out of one context and repositioned in the language of art.

The Long March of Pop

The Long March of Pop
Title The Long March of Pop PDF eBook
Author Thomas E. Crow
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre ART
ISBN 9780300203974

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An original and insightful new history of Pop Art from one of the most important art historians of our time Thomas Crow's paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor's insistence that any creative pursuit is worthy of aesthetic consideration, Crow demonstrates that this inclusive attitude also had strong American roots. Folk becomes Crow's starting point in the advance of Pop. The folk revival occurred chiefly in the sphere of music during the 1930s and '40s, while folk art surfaced a decade later in the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Crow eloquently examines the subsequent explosion of commercial imagery in visual art, alongside its repercussions in popular music and graphic design. Pop's practitioners become defined as artists whose distillation of the vernacular is able to capture the feelings stirring among a broad public, beginning with young participants in the politicized 1960s counterculture. Woody Guthrie and Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, Ed Ruscha and the Byrds, Pauline Boty and the Beatles, the Who and Damien Hirst are all considered together with key graphic designers such as Milton Glaser and Rick Griffin in this engaging book.

Discrepant Abstraction

Discrepant Abstraction
Title Discrepant Abstraction PDF eBook
Author Kobena Mercer
Publisher Turner A&r Press
Pages 0
Release 2006
Genre Art
ISBN 9781899846436

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Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in 20th-century art, this book introduces fresh perspectives on abstraction as a visual signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions that abstract art has taken in different international contexts. This groundbreaking collection shows how the heterogeneous qualities of abstraction have been cross-fertilised, from abstract expressionism onwards, by the creative discrepancies that arise when different cultural identities come face to face in the artistic imagination. Discrepant Abstraction is the second volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Contributors: Stanley Abe; David Clarke; Mark Cheetham; David Craven; Wilson Harris; Iftikhar Dadi; Kellie Jones; Nathaniel Mackey; Kobena Mercer and Angeline Morrison. Supported by the Getty Foundation.

Pop Art and Beyond

Pop Art and Beyond
Title Pop Art and Beyond PDF eBook
Author Mona Hadler
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 409
Release 2022-02-24
Genre Art
ISBN 1350197548

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Pop Art and Beyond foregrounds the roles of gender, race, and class in encounters with Pop during the Long Sixties. Exploring the work of over 20 artists from 5 continents, it offers new perspectives on Pop's heterogeneity. Featuring an array of rigorous chapters written by both acclaimed experts and emerging scholars, this anthology transcends the borders of individual and national contexts, and suspends hierarchies creating a space for the work of artists like Andy Warhol and the women of the Black Arts Movement to converse. It casts an inclusive look at the intersectional complexities of difference in Pop at a moment that gave rise to a plethora of radical social movements and identity politics. While this book introduces revelatory non-canonical artists into the Pop context or amplifies the careers of others, it is not limited to the confines of fine art. Chapters explore the intersecting variables of oppression and liberation in rituals of youth subcultures as well as practices across media with Pop sources and parallels ranging from Native American objects, Harlem advertisements, and Cordel literature, to stand-up comedy, music, fashion, and design. Pop Art and Beyond thus widens the conversation about what Pop was and what it can be for current art in its struggle for social justice and critiques of power.

Popular Culture Values and the Arts

Popular Culture Values and the Arts
Title Popular Culture Values and the Arts PDF eBook
Author Ray B. Browne
Publisher McFarland
Pages 231
Release 2014-01-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0786453451

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In countries around the world, the rise of class divisions and unbridled capitalism are changing the conventional definitions of art and esthetics. Historically, the philanthropy of the elite has played a leading role in supporting, funding, and distributing artistic works. While such measures may be pure in intent, many worry that private funding may be gentrifying the arts and creating a situation in which art will only be valued for its prestige or, worse, its price tag. This collection of essays examines the current movement to democratize the arts and make the world of artistic endeavor open and accessible to all. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Corita Kent and the Language of Pop

Corita Kent and the Language of Pop
Title Corita Kent and the Language of Pop PDF eBook
Author Susan Dackerman
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 339
Release 2015-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0300214715

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Exhibition catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 3, 2015-January 3, 2016 and at the San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, February 13-May 8, 2016.

Art of the 20th Century

Art of the 20th Century
Title Art of the 20th Century PDF eBook
Author Karl Ruhrberg
Publisher Taschen
Pages 850
Release 2000
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9783822859070

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The original edition of this ambitious reference was published in hardcover in 1998, in two oversize volumes (10x13"). This edition combines the two volumes into one; it's paperbound ("flexi-cover"--the paper has a plastic coating), smaller (8x10", and affordable for art book buyers with shallower pockets--none of whom should pass it by. The scope is encyclopedic: half the work (originally the first volume) is devoted to painting; the other half to sculpture, new media, and photography. Chapters are arranged thematically, and each page displays several examples (in color) of work under discussion. The final section, a lexicon of artists, includes a small bandw photo of each artist, as well as biographical information and details of work, writings, and exhibitions. Ruhrberg and the three other authors are veteran art historians, curators, and writers, as is editor Walther. c. Book News Inc.