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Art in the age of mass media / John A. Walker.

By: Publication details: London, England ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.Edition: 3rd edDescription: viii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0745317456 (hbk.)
  • 0745317448 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700/.1/05 21
LOC classification:
  • N72.M28 W34 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. CORE TERMS/CONCEPTS -- The Fine Arts -- The Mass Media and Mass Culture -- 2. ART USES MASS CULTURE -- Courbet, Van Gogh and Popular Imagery -- Pop Art Translates Mass Culture -- American Pop -- Formalism in Pop Art -- The Politics of Pop -- Transubstantiation -- Indirect Influences of the Mass Media -- 3. THE MASS MEDIA USE ART -- Art as Subject-matter -- Image of the Artist in Advertisements -- Art as a Source of Styles and Formal Innovations -- Art as Subject-matter in the Cinema -- Artists as a Pool of Skilled Labour -- 4. MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION AND THE FINE ARTS -- 5. HIGH CULTURE: AFFIRMATIVE OR NEGATIVE? -- 6. CULTURAL PLURALISM AND POST-MODERNISM -- Reporting the Zeitgeist -- The Politics of Pluralism -- 7. ALTERNATIVES -- John Heartfield and Photo-montage -- Community Art/Murals -- Political Art in the Galleries -- 8. ART AND MASS MEDIA IN THE 1980s -- Cross-overs and Mass Avant-gardism -- Simulacra -- Art, Advertising and Billboards -- Appropriationists -- Plagiarists -- Koons, the Master of Kitsch and Business Art -- 9. ARTISTS AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES -- Photography -- Photocopiers -- Video -- Computers -- 10. ART AND MASS MEDIA 1990-2000 -- War, the Media and Art -- Art and Surveillance -- Art and Advertising -- Art and Cinema -- The Artist as Media Celebrity: Damien Hirst -- Simulation -- Digital Art -- The Internet and Website Design -- Museums -- Melrose Place -- 11. CONCLUSION -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-204) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. CORE TERMS/CONCEPTS -- The Fine Arts -- The Mass Media and Mass Culture -- 2. ART USES MASS CULTURE -- Courbet, Van Gogh and Popular Imagery -- Pop Art Translates Mass Culture -- American Pop -- Formalism in Pop Art -- The Politics of Pop -- Transubstantiation -- Indirect Influences of the Mass Media -- 3. THE MASS MEDIA USE ART -- Art as Subject-matter -- Image of the Artist in Advertisements -- Art as a Source of Styles and Formal Innovations -- Art as Subject-matter in the Cinema -- Artists as a Pool of Skilled Labour -- 4. MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION AND THE FINE ARTS -- 5. HIGH CULTURE: AFFIRMATIVE OR NEGATIVE? -- 6. CULTURAL PLURALISM AND POST-MODERNISM -- Reporting the Zeitgeist -- The Politics of Pluralism -- 7. ALTERNATIVES -- John Heartfield and Photo-montage -- Community Art/Murals -- Political Art in the Galleries -- 8. ART AND MASS MEDIA IN THE 1980s -- Cross-overs and Mass Avant-gardism -- Simulacra -- Art, Advertising and Billboards -- Appropriationists -- Plagiarists -- Koons, the Master of Kitsch and Business Art -- 9. ARTISTS AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES -- Photography -- Photocopiers -- Video -- Computers -- 10. ART AND MASS MEDIA 1990-2000 -- War, the Media and Art -- Art and Surveillance -- Art and Advertising -- Art and Cinema -- The Artist as Media Celebrity: Damien Hirst -- Simulation -- Digital Art -- The Internet and Website Design -- Museums -- Melrose Place -- 11. CONCLUSION -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index.

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