FAH289H5 Lecture 3: Pop Art
23 Feb 2016
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Key terms and concepts: pop art, consumerism and commodity, high art-low art (popular culture, mass culture, neo-dada. Practices of american artists in the late 50. Gathered around an institution (black mountain college) Role of a dictator- what they looked at. Position is anti-painting, anti modern: readymade, collage, index, appropriation. Borrowing of works by other artist to create a new idea. British artist were using mass media and mass culture to show meaningful expression of consumerism: pastiche, nouveau r alisme, assemblage. Ways in which art is in uenced by new technology. Wanted to reconnect their practices with society. Art was not to represent individual ideas. The society de ne by the presence of mass media and technology. Instead of painting, they would put up large galleries: ex-1953-parallel of life and art the independent group. How media changes experiences of everything in our life. How we relate to the environment, society, to each other. Working towards making art accessible to everyone.
