Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture

ISBN-13: 9780521836586 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 316 str.

Sara Doris

Opis

Pop Art and the Contest Over American Culture examines the socially and aesthetically subversive character of pop art. Providing a historically contextualized reading of American pop art, Sara Doris locates the movement within the larger framework of the social, cultural, and political transformations of the 1960s. She demonstrates how pop art's use of discredited mass-cultural imagery worked to challenge established social and cultural hierarchies.

Recenzje

'Sara Doris's Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture provides a compelling re-evaluation of pop, especially in terms of how it - and the critical discourse surrounding it - embodied postwar anxieties.' American Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The contest over culture, 1939–1966; 2. The perils of affluence: class, taste, and the culture explosions; 3. Pop art, pop culture, and the transformation of taste; 4. Pop art, pop fashion, and the 'Youthquake'; 5. Pop art, obsolescence, and camp.