Art in the age of mass media
By: John A. Walker.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London, England; Sterling, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Mass media and art.; Popular culture.
Description: "John Walker examines the relationship between art and mass media, and the myriad interactions between high and low culture in a postmodern, culturally pluralistic world. Using a range of historic and contemporary works of art to illustrate theoretical points, Walker explores the variety of ways in which modern artists have responded to the arrival of new, mass media. He ranges from the socialist paintings of Courbet to the anti-Nazi photomontages of Heartfield, from community murals and Keith Haring's use of graffiti to the kitsch self-promotion associated with Jeff Koons. The new edition describes what happened during the 1990s, including Toscani's adverts for Benetton, the simulations of Leeds 13, art and cinema, Damien Hirst, and the cyberart currently being produced for the internet. 'Art in the Age of Mass Media' is an introduction to the continuing debates between high art and low culture for students of media and cultural studies and art history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. CORE TERMS/CONCEPTS; title: The Fine Arts; title: The Mass Media and Mass Culture; title: 2. ART USES MASS CULTURE; title: Courbet, Van Gogh and Popular Imagery; title: Pop Art Translates Mass Culture; title: American Pop; title: Formalism in Pop Art; title: The Politics of Pop; title: Transubstantiation; title: Indirect Influences of the Mass Media; title: 3. THE MASS MEDIA USE ART; title: Art as Subject-matter; title: Image of the Artist in Advertisements; title: Art as a Source of Styles and Formal Innovations; title: Art as Subject-matter in the Cinema; title: Artists as a Pool of Skilled Labour; title: 4. MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION AND THE FINE ARTS; title: 5. HIGH CULTURE: AFFIRMATIVE OR NEGATIVE?; title: 6. CULTURAL PLURALISM AND POST-MODERNISM; title: Reporting the Zeitgeist; title: The Politics of Pluralism; title: 7. ALTERNATIVES; title: John Heartfield and Photo-montage; title: Community Art/Murals; title: Political Art in the Galleries; title: 8. ART AND MASS MEDIA IN THE 1980s; title: Cross-overs and Mass Avant-gardism; title: Simulacra; title: Art, Advertising and Billboards; title: Appropriationists; title: Plagiarists; title: Koons, the Master of Kitsch and Business Art; title: 9. ARTISTS AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES; title: Photography; title: Photocopiers; title: Video; title: Computers; title: 10. ART AND MASS MEDIA 1990-2000; title: War, the Media and Art; title: Art and Surveillance; title: Art and Advertising; title: Art and Cinema; title: The Artist as Media Celebrity: Damien Hirst; title: Simulation; title: Digital Art; title: The Internet and Website Design; title: Museums; title: Melrose Place; title: 11. CONCLUSION; title: Notes and References; title: Bibliography; title: Index.