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Popular Culture - Coggle Diagram
Popular Culture
Pop-art
Method of collage
Different types of artefacts in one single image
Combination: pop culture forms & fine arts
Andy Warhol
Commenting on commodity fetishism
Theorized and practiced pop art
Commercial art as real art
Printed images of Campbell's soup cans
Breakdown of distinctions & categories
Roy Liechtenstein
John Storey
1) Quantitative Index
2) Residual / “left over” category
3) Commercial / mass culture
4) Authentic (folk) culture
5) Site of struggle & “cultural hegemony”
6) Postmodernism (POMO)
Cultural traffic
Exchange, circulation, and interaction of cultural elements
Luciano Pavarotti: Puccini's "Nessun Dorma"
Free concert in London's Hyde Park (1991)
Clear division between high & pop culture?
Definitions (Williams 1983)
1) Well-liked by many people
2) Inferior kinds of work
3) Work deliberately setting out to win favor with the people
4) Culture actually made by the people for themselves
"Rejection of the Great Divide"
Take pop culture out of the realm of 'escapism'
Treat pop culture with the seriousness of art
Staying humorous and playful