Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture

Download or read book Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture written by Sara Doris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.