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A taste for pop : pop art, gender, and consumer culture
- Title
- A taste for pop : pop art, gender, and consumer culture / Cécile Whiting.
- Author
- Whiting, Cécile, 1958-
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 304 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- When Pop-art paintings depicted Campbell soup cans or comic-book scenes of teen romance, did they stoop to the level of their mundane sources, or did they instead transmogrify the detritus of consumer culture into high art? In this study, Cecile Whiting declares the issues fundamentally irresolvable and instead takes the question itself, along with the varied answers it has generated, as the object of her analysis. Whiting presents case studies that focus on works by four artists - Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Marisol Escobar - who are closely associated with the Pop-art movement. Throughout her engaging analyses, Whiting unravels the gendered overtones of their cultural manoeuverings, noting how the connotations of masculinity as attached to the seriousness of high art, and the presumed frivolity and caprice of a feminine world of consumption repositioned cultural frontiers and reformulated the relation between sexes.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in American visual culture
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in American visual culture
- Subject
- Marisol 1930-2016
- Lichtenstein, Roy 1923-1997
- Warhol, Andy 1928-1987
- Wesselmann, Tom 1931-2004
- Pop Art
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Popular culture > United States
- Subculture > United States
- Popular culture
- Subculture
- Geschlechterforschung
- Kunstwissenschaft
- Popkultur
- Pop-Art
- Pop-art
- Sekseverschillen
- Culture populaire > États-Unis
- Pop'art > États-Unis
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-295) and index.
- Contents
- Shopping for pop. Bonwit Teller's Warhol window ; Oldenburg's Store ; Campbell soup at the Blanchini Gallery -- Wesselmann and pop at home. The economy of domesticity ; Postwar cultural hierarchies ; Collapsing cultural hierarchies ; Recoding cultural hierarchies ; Masculinity at home -- Lichtenstein's borrowed spots. Love and war ; Criticism and the crisis in masculinity ; Advertising with pop -- Warhol, the public star and the private self. The private lives of public stars ; Warhol's selfless celebrities ; Warhol's selfless self ; Camp and the new "In crowd" -- Figuring Marisol's femininities. Hard- and soft-core pop ; The mysteries and mirrors of Marisol ; The fashionable artist and art as fashion ; Marisol masquerade, mimicry -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0521450047
- 9780521450041
- 0521588219
- 9780521588218
- LCCN
- 96049965
- OCLC
- ocm36008560
- 36008560
- SCSB-2116100
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library