CATE3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lady Gaga, Science Fiction Film, Sydney Grammar School
25 Jul 2018
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Pop placed visible cracks in what separated the traditional division between high and low, then with the advent of accessible digital and moving-image media, this distinction has all but shattered. The promiscuity and omnipresence of mass media has meant that for those in the developed world (and even elsewhere), taste, style, desire and therefore fashion are at the epicentre of our lives. This relationship gained complexity and density in the postwar boom of the 1960s with audacious body styling that borrowed from science fiction movies as much as art itself (e. g. courr ges). It is a little known fact that it was yves saint laurent"s. Mondrian dress that launched the artist into the mainstream, hitherto languishing as a master for specialist artists. These cross-pollinations climax with designers such as margiela and mcqueen whose body-as-sculpture attitude is distantly echoed in the tendency of museum architecture also to be like gigantic sculptures.
