JAV120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blackboard, Drowning Girl, Industrial Revolution
13 Jan 2018
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Term first used by lawrence alloway (a member of the independent group- group that met to discuss cultural change in an age of technology) This is tomorrow 1st pop art exhibition. Pop art as a reaction to abstract expressionism. Pop culture as a result of the industrial revolution + over technological revolutions after it. Pop art as a response to the outside world, rather than the inner psyche (ab ex) Although the it has british origins, it is deeply linked to american mass media. One of the founders of the independent group with the ica. Just what is it that makes today"s homes so different, so appealing? 1956. Uses existing imagery from pop culture that already exists in the 2 dimension. Gulf between high art and low art begins to disappear. Obsession with all things american in post-war britain. Trying to land somewhere in the middle between glorifying and sending up (satirizing)
