Art in the age of mass media. / John A. Walker.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Pluto, 2001Edition: 3rd edDescription: 224p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0745317448 (pbk.) :
- 0745317456
- 700.1
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700.1 THI Thinking through art : reflections on art as research / | 700.1 WAL Art in the age of mass media / | 700.1 WAL Art in the age of mass media / | 700.1 WAL Art in the age of mass media. / | 700.1 WEB An inquiry into the beauties of painting : Observations on the correspondence between poetry and music / | 700.103 ABE Artists and their public / | 700.103 ACT Activism / |
Previous ed.: 1994.
1. Core Terms/Concepts -- 2. Art Uses Mass Culture -- 3. The Mass Media Use Art -- 4. Mechanical Reproduction and the Fine Arts -- 5. High Culture: Affirmative or Negative? -- 6. Cultural Pluralism and Post-Modernism -- 7. Alternatives -- 8. Art and Mass Media in the 1980s -- 9. Artists and New Media Technologies -- 10. War, The Media and Art in the 1990s -- 11. Conclusion.
"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.
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