Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures (Annotating Art's Histories) - Softcover

Mercer, Kobena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899846441 ISBN 13: 9781899846443

Publisher: Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA), 2007

Synopsis

How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a postcolonial lens? This volume casts light on the aesthetics and politics of pop by taking a cross-cultural perspective on what happens when everyday objects are taken out of one context and repositioned in the language of art.

About this title

Product Description:

Provides a cross-cultural perspective on the aesthetics and politics of pop art. This book contains eight illustrated essays, which take a look at the turning point from modernism to post-modernism, casting light on the shifting boundaries of 'high' and 'low' in different national and international contexts.

Synopsis:

""Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures" is an incisive, critical intervention into the scene of history-making specific to accounts of modernism. This book and its companion volumes are part of that rare intellectual event which everyone committed to fuller understanding of the history of 20th-century artistic cultures will find indispensable..." - Okwui Enwezor - Dean of Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute. This book provides a cross-cultural perspective on the aesthetics and politics of pop art. It contains eight in-depth illustrated essays, which take a fresh look at the turning point from modernism to post-modernism, casting new light on the shifting boundaries of 'high' and 'low' in different national and international contexts. The collection examines: How does pop art translate across cultures? What does it look like through a post-colonial lens?

About this edition

• Publisher: Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA)
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1899846441
• ISBN 13: 9781899846443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232