Title: Modern art in the common culture
First published: 1996
Description: Must avant-garde art hold itself apart from the values and beliefs widely held in the common culture? Must advanced artists always be the symbolic adversaries of the ordinary citizen?

These questions have dominated, even paralyzed the modern art world, particularly in recent years when perceived elitism and imposed canons of taste have come under fire from all sides. In this stimulating book, a prominent art historian shows that the links between advanced art and modern mass culture have always been robust, indeed necessary to both.

Thomas Crow focuses on the continual interdependence between the two phenomena, providing examples that range from Paris in the mid-nineteenth century to the latest revivals of Conceptual art in the 1990s.
Subjects: Art, Modern, Modern Art, Culture de masse, Art, Beeldende kunsten, Aspect social, Avantgarde, Massenkultur, Avant-garde, Populaire cultuur, Kunst, Art, modern, 19th century, Art, modern, 20th century
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: N6450 .C76 1996