ed. by Kobena Mercer ; texts by Gavin Butt, Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Sonia Salzstein, Geeta Kapur, Colin Richards, Martina Köppel-Yang, Kobena Mercer
- Author(s)
- Gavin Butt, Holly Barnet-Sanchez, Sonia Salzstein, Geeta Kapur, Colin Richards, Martina Köppel-Yang, Kobena Mercer
- Editor(s)
- Kobena Mercer
- Publication, year
- London : Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), 2007
- Scope
- 232 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780262633505
How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a postcolonial lens? This volume casts new 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. Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures examines practices that range from the recycling of consumerist waste in Chicano “rasquachismo” to the painterly pastiche of Hindu “photo-gods,” exploring the semiotic transformations that arise when art reveals unexpected antagonisms in the social life of images. Showing how boundaries marking “high” and “low” are further corroded by strategies that question categories of “folk,” “nation,” and “people” in the global culture of modernity, this book breaks new ground in understanding pop art's ambiguous reaction to (and compliance with) the dynamics of high capitalism.
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie
- Remarks
- Incl. Biography and Bibliography.
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