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Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture

Sara Doris (University of Memphis)

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English
Cambridge University Press
10 February 2014
Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture examines the socially and aesthetically subversive character of pop art. 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 the 1960s. She demonstrates how pop art's use of discredited mass-cultural imagery worked to challenge established social and cultural hierarchies. At the same time, its affinities with marginalized forms of taste - gay Camp and youth culture - allied it with the proto-political changes foreshadowing the radical politics that emerged late in the decade. Pop art's subversive critique of consumer culture also served as a crucial precedent for postmodernist practices. By analyzing pop art within the context of the broader social upheavals of the 1960s, this study establishes that it was both a significant participant in those transformations and that it profoundly shaped today's postmodern culture.

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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 253mm,  Width: 177mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   770g
ISBN:   9781107692909
ISBN 10:   1107692903
Pages:   313
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sara Doris is assistant professor of contemporary art at the University of Memphis.

Reviews for Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture

'Sara Doris offers a lucid account of the social and cultural forces that accompanied the suburban boom and helped foster the emergence of new art forms ...' Art and Antiques 'Sara Doris's Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture provides a compelling re-evaluation of pop, especially in terms of how it - and the critical discourse surrounding it - embodied postwar anxieties.' American Studies


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