
The Pop Art Tradition - Responding to Mass-Culture
Warhol, Lichtenstein, and the culture of mass imagesBy Eric ShanesLength7h 29m
About this audiobook
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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Length7 hrs 29 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
18Some Further American Pop/Mass-Culture Artists
2FOREWORD
19Meanwhile, back in Europe…
3POP / MASS-CULTURE ART
20David Hockney
4Forerunners of Pop/Mass-Culture Art
21Allen Jones and Others
5Early Pop/Mass-Culture Art in Britain
22Photorealism and Mass-Culture
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6The Rise of Pop/Mass-Culture Art in America
23Duane Hanson, Sandy Skoglund and Ed Paschke
7The Triumph of Pop/Mass-Culture Art
24Keith Haring, Jeff Koons and Mark Kostabi
8Some Individual Artists and their Creative Development
25Arman
9Jasper Johns
26Martial Raysse, Mimmo Rotella, Erró and Others
10Robert Rauschenberg
27Haim Steinbach, Ashley Bickerton and Others
11Claes Oldenburg
28British Sculptors and Mass-Culture
12Roy Lichtenstein
29A Necessary Change of Name
13Andy Warhol
30The Cultural Status of Pop/Mass-Culture Art?
14James Rosenquist
31THE PLATES (pt. 1)
15Jim Dine
32THE PLATES (pt. 2)
16George Segal
33SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
17Ed Kienholz