Art in the Age of Mass Media

ISBN-13: 9780367009526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 210 str.

John Walker

Opis

John Walker examines the fascinating relationship between art and mass media, and the myriad interactions between high and low culture in a postmodern, culturally pluralistic world.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Core Terms/Concepts -- Art Uses Mass Culture -- The Mass Media Use Art -- Mechanical Reproduction and the Fine Arts -- High Culture: Affirmative or Negative? -- Cultural Pluralism and Post-Modernism -- Alternatives -- Art and Mass Media in the 1980s -- Artists and New Media Technologies -- War, the Media and Art in the 1990s -- Conclusion

O autorze

John Walker holds a Ph.D. in solid state physics from the University of Reading. Mr. Walker is a technical manager for Racal Telecommunications Ltd. in Reading, United Kingdom.