Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures

Name: Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures
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ISBN: 9780262633505

ISBN-10: 0262633507

ISBN-13: 9780262633505

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kobena Mercer, Holly Barnet-Sï¿½nchez, Gavin Butt, Geeta Kapur, Sonia Salzstein

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How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a post-colonial lens? In the global marketplace of images, artists have long challenged the discourse of officialdom by turning to dissident elements in the languages of vernacular culture. This volume casts new light on the aesthetics and politics of pop by taking a cross-cultural perspective on what happens when everyday objects are taken out of one context and repositioned in the language of art. Pop Art and Vernacular Culturesexamines practices that range from the recycling of consumerist waste in Chicano "rasquachismo" to the painterly pastiche of Hindu "photo-gods," exploring the semiotic transformations…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.628



Introduction



"Stop That Acting!"


Performance and Authenticity in Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason



Chicano/a Critical Practices


Reflections on Tomas Ybarra-Frausto's Concept of Rasquachismo



Pop as a Crisis in the Public Sphere



The Uncommon Universe of Bhupen Khakhar



Tropes of the Grotesque in the Black Avant-Garde



Off the Wall


Mr Peanut and Other Mod Cons



75% Red, 20% Black and 5% White


Pop Aesthetics in Post-Revolutionary China



List of Illustrations


Select Bibliography


Biographies


Acknowledgments