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La Tradition Pop Art – Une reponse a la Culture de Masse
L’auteur, Eric Shanes, analyse la démarche des artistes incontournables du Pop Art mais souligne également les influences qui subsistent aujourd’hui dans l’art contemporain, faisant désormais de ce mouvement un art institutionnalisé.
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Die Pop Art Tradition – Die antwort auf die Massenkultur
Dieses Buch bietet eine völlig neue Sicht auf die in den 1950er Jahren aufgekommene so genannte “Pop Art”. Der zentrale Ansatz dieses Buches weitet die schon immer die Verhältnisse eher verdunkelnde als erhellende Bezeichnung des Terminus “Pop Art” aus und befasst sich mit der die Massenkultur thematisierenden Kunst.
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The Pop Art Tradition – Responding to Mass-Culture
This book offers a radically new perspective on the so-called ‘Pop Art’ creative dynamic that has been around since the 1950s. It does so by enhancing the term ‘Pop Art’ which has always been recognised as a misnomer, for it obscures far more than it clarifies. Instead, the book connects all the art in question to mass-culture which has always provided its core inspiration.
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Why the Soul of Surrealism is in India
If all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players, then where do the Surrealists sit? According to my imagined global map of where art movements should be located, the Impressionists are based in the South of France, the Blaue Reiter in Germany, the Nabis in Stockholm, Cubism in Iceland, the Old Masters (da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, etc.) in Italy, Aestheticism in Decorative Arts in Shanghai, Digital Art in Oslo, and Lyrical Abstraction in Tokyo. Of course, this is entirely subjective, but I think that certain countries, or cities, really do go hand in hand with the style or ideals that various art movements represent.
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The Good, the Bad, and the 17th Century
Here we are again at the 17th century, the time of Master Rembrandt and his many self-portraits. But, frankly, when I consider wanting to go back in time, I don’t fancy returning to the 17th century. There were a tonne of wars. Famines in Russia, France, and Finland and a plague in both Seville and London. Shakespeare died, for crying out loud – I’m still mourning this loss. The Good: Jamestown, Virginia was established – which later led to a massacre of 347 English settlers by the natives (essentially score one and only) St Peter’s Basilica was completed Torture was outlawed in England (we’re still waiting for that…
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