Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture

Sara Doris (University of Memphis)

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Cambridge University Press
29 January 2007

Art & design styles: Pop art; Cultural studies

Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture examines the socially and aesthetically subversive character of pop art. Providing a historically contextualized reading of American pop art, Sara Doris locates the movement within the larger framework of the social, cultural and political transformations of the 1960s. She demonstrates how pop art's use of discredited mass-cultural imagery worked to challenge established social and cultural hierarchies. At the same time, its affinities with marginalized forms of taste - gay Camp and youth culture - allied it with the proto-political changes foreshadowing the radical politics that emerged late in the decade. Pop art's subversive critique of consumer culture also served as a crucial precedent for postmodernist practices. By analyzing pop art within the context of the broader social upheavals of the 1960s, this study establishes that it was both a significant participant in those transformations and that it profoundly shaped today's postmodern culture.

By: Sara Doris (University of Memphis)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 262mm, Width: 187mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 828g
ISBN: 9780521836586
ISBN 10: 0521836581
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 29 January 2007
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sara Doris is assistant professor of contemporary art at the University of Memphis.

Reviews for Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture

'Sara Doris offers a lucid account of the social and cultural forces that accompanied the suburban boom and helped foster the emergence of new art forms ...' Art and Antiques 'Sara Doris's Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture provides a compelling re-evaluation of pop, especially in terms of how it - and the critical discourse surrounding it - embodied postwar anxieties.' American Studies