The Pop Art Tradition - Responding to Mass-Culture EPUB
by Shanes Eric Shanes
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This book offers a radically new perspective on the so-called '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 has created a new Modernist tradition which is still flourishing.
The book traces that tradition down the forty and more years since Pop/Mass-Culture Art first came into being in the 1950s, and locates it within its larger historical context.
Naturally the book discusses the major contributors to the Pop/Mass-Culture Art tradition right down to the present, in the process including a number of artists who have never previously been connected with so-called ‘Pop Art’ but who have always been primarily interested in mass-culture, and who are therefore partially or totally connected with Pop/Mass-Culture Art.
The book reproduces in colour and discusses in great detail over 150 of the key works of the Pop/Mass-Culture Art tradition.
Often this involves the close reading of images whose meaning has largely escaped understanding previously.
The result is a book that qualitatively is fully on a level with Eric Shanes’s other best-selling and award-winning writings.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Parkstone International
- Publication Date:09/12/2019
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- ISBN:9781783107490
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Parkstone International
- Publication Date:09/12/2019
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- ISBN:9781783107490
