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Modern Art in the Common Culture
by
Thomas Crow
In this illuminating book, a prominent art historian explores the links between avant-garde art and modern mass culture, showing that the connections between the two have always been strong, and even necessary to both. The author recounts vivid episodes involving Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Christopher Williams, and many others, arriving at fresh and original insights in...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
September 10th 1998
by Yale University Press
(first published 1996)
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Those seriously interested in the history and theory of modern art
This book is so good that somebody stole it from me. No foolin'! I left it at work one day last summer and haven't seen it since. Highlights include the opening essay on very early modernist views on the emerging 'mass' culture of the city (i.e. Stéphan Mallarmé and Paul Signac on post-Haussmannized Paris) and an essay on the 'sentimental' conceptualisms of Bas Jan Ader and the little-known Christopher D'Arcangelo. It's worth a read for these two essays alone.
Okay. I liked the anecdotes about Sarah Jessica Parker's perfume, but all of the chemical compounds with names like axnoandadoafaoxide and anonaornaeocnalyne really dragged down the writing. (Or maybe I'm just not sophisticated enough to appreciate it.)
"Handmade Photographs and Homeless Representation" is one of the great essays in this book. Yet another author I put in all of my syllabi.
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