Ebook: Pop Art : Art of Century
Author: Shanes Eric
- Tags: Art -- 20th century., Pop art.
- Series: Art of century collection
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Parkstone International
- City: New York
- Language: English
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This book offers a radically new perspective on the Pop Art creative dynamic that has been around since the 1950s. It does so by enhancing the term 'Pop Art', which has always been recognised as a misnomer, for it obscures far more than it clarifies. Instead, the book connects all the art in question to mass culture, which has always provided its core inspiration. Above all, the book suggests that this Mass-Culture Read more...
Abstract: This book offers a radically new perspective on the Pop Art creative dynamic that has been around since the 1950s. It does so by enhancing the term 'Pop Art', which has always been recognised as a misnomer, for it obscures far more than it clarifies. Instead, the book connects all the art in question to mass culture, which has always provided its core inspiration. Above all, the book suggests that this Mass-Culture Art created a new modernist tradition that is still flourishing. The book traces that tradition through the forty or more years since Pop/Mass-Culture Art first came into being in t