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Art in the age of mass media /

By: Publication details: London, England ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.Edition: 3rd edDescription: viii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0745317448 (pbk.)
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Contents:
1. Core terms/Concepts -- The Fine Arts -- The Mass Media and Mass Culture -- 2. Art uses mass culture -- Courbet, Van Gogh and Popular Imagery -- Pop Art Translates Mass Culture -- American Pop -- Formalism in Pop Art -- The Politics of Pop -- Transubstantiation -- Indirect Influences of the Mass Media -- 3. The mass media use art -- Art as Subject-matter -- Image of the Artist in Advertisements -- Art as a Source of Styles and Formal Innovations -- Art as Subject-matter in the Cinema -- Artists as a Pool of Skilled Labour -- 4. Mechanical reproduction and the fine arts -- 5. High culture: affirmative or negative? -- 6. Cultural pluralism and post-modernism -- Reporting the Zeitgeist -- The Politics of Pluralism -- 7. Alternatives -- John Heartfield and Photo-montage -- Community Art/Murals -- Political Art in the Galleries -- 8. Art and the mass media in the 1980s -- Cross-overs and Mass Avant-gardism -- Simulacra -- Art, Advertising and Billboards -- Appropriationists -- Plagiarists -- Koons, the Master of Kitsch and Business Art -- 9. Artists and new media technologies -- Photography -- Photocopiers -- Video -- Computers -- 10. Art and mass media 1990-2000 -- War, the Media and Art -- Art and Surveillance -- Art and Advertising -- Art and Cinema -- The Artist as Media Celebrity: Damien Hirst -- Simulation -- Digital Art -- The Internet and Website Design -- Museums -- Melrose Place -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-204) and index.

1. Core terms/Concepts -- The Fine Arts -- The Mass Media and Mass Culture -- 2. Art uses mass culture -- Courbet, Van Gogh and Popular Imagery -- Pop Art Translates Mass Culture -- American Pop -- Formalism in Pop Art -- The Politics of Pop -- Transubstantiation -- Indirect Influences of the Mass Media -- 3. The mass media use art -- Art as Subject-matter -- Image of the Artist in Advertisements -- Art as a Source of Styles and Formal Innovations -- Art as Subject-matter in the Cinema -- Artists as a Pool of Skilled Labour -- 4. Mechanical reproduction and the fine arts -- 5. High culture: affirmative or negative? -- 6. Cultural pluralism and post-modernism -- Reporting the Zeitgeist -- The Politics of Pluralism -- 7. Alternatives -- John Heartfield and Photo-montage -- Community Art/Murals -- Political Art in the Galleries -- 8. Art and the mass media in the 1980s -- Cross-overs and Mass Avant-gardism -- Simulacra -- Art, Advertising and Billboards -- Appropriationists -- Plagiarists -- Koons, the Master of Kitsch and Business Art -- 9. Artists and new media technologies -- Photography -- Photocopiers -- Video -- Computers -- 10. Art and mass media 1990-2000 -- War, the Media and Art -- Art and Surveillance -- Art and Advertising -- Art and Cinema -- The Artist as Media Celebrity: Damien Hirst -- Simulation -- Digital Art -- The Internet and Website Design -- Museums -- Melrose Place -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index.

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