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Pop art and the contest over American culture / Sara Doris.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521836581
  • 9780521836586
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.7309045 22
LOC classification:
  • N6512.5.P6 D67 2007
Contents:
1. The contest over culture, 1939-1966 -- 2. The perils of affluence : class, taste, and the culture explosion -- 3. Pop art, pop culture, and the transformation of taste -- 4. Pop art, pop fashion, and the "youthquake" -- 5. Pop art, obsolescence, and camp.
Review: "This book examines the socially and aesthetically subversive character of the movement that transformed American art and culture in the 1960s. 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 that decade."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and index.

1. The contest over culture, 1939-1966 -- 2. The perils of affluence : class, taste, and the culture explosion -- 3. Pop art, pop culture, and the transformation of taste -- 4. Pop art, pop fashion, and the "youthquake" -- 5. Pop art, obsolescence, and camp.

"This book examines the socially and aesthetically subversive character of the movement that transformed American art and culture in the 1960s. 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 that decade."--BOOK JACKET.

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