And yet, whether they choose to withdraw or stay, believers should be wary of overstating either the horrors of the present era or the virtues of the American
pop cultural landscape gone by.
Not exact matches
Warhol, the architect of
Pop and subsequent catalyst of a new
cultural age, and Beuys, the poetic radical who revolutionized the
landscape of the performance and the concept in art, are here sublimely conflated in an epic tribute to both their talents.
One hundred years after Duchamp's Bride Stripped Bare,
pop psychology books such as The End of Men, the frequently dubbed «feminist» action film Mad Max: Fury Road, and «The Future Is Female» T - shirt craze present a wholly different
cultural landscape for understanding today's bachelor machines.
It seems symptomatic of a broader reorientation in the
pop -
cultural landscape of early»90s Britain, away from the plaid - shirt nihilism of Generation X, towards a confident levity and engagement with a more localized
pop sensibility — a loss of interest in the US as locus of artistic innovation.
Interested more generally in
pop culture and
pop culture nostalgia, Arcangel has taken as his subject other new media forms, including YouTube and blogs, using them to create works that explore their role in our
cultural landscape.
«While
Pop is often characterized as a celebration of popular imagery, this exhibition focuses on the dark and unsettling ways in which artists looked at the
cultural landscape of America in the 1960s and 1970s,» explains Chief Curator Donna De Salvo.
Influenced by the
cultural landscape of the early sixties, particularly the burgeoning
Pop Art movement, these works pre-date more familiar works such as the non-site objects and the seminal, outdoor earthworks.