Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism (Contemporary Artists and their Critics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521791151
Subjects: Pop art; Postmodernism; United States; Influence; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - General; Art / General; Pop art--United States--Influence
Description: "Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism examines the critical reception of Pop Art in America during the 1960s. Comparing the ideas of a group of New York-based critics, including Leo Steinberg, Susan Sontag, and Max Kozloff, among others, Sylvia Harrison demonstrates how their ideas - broadly categorized as either sociological or philosophical - bear a striking similarity to the body of thought and opinion that is now associated with deconstructive post-modernism. Perceived through these disciplinary lenses, Pop Art arises as not only a reflection of the dominance of mass communications and capitalist consumerism in post-war American society but also as a subversive commentary on worldviews and the factors necessary for their formation."--Jacket.