Pop art and popular music : jukebox modernism / Melissa L. Mednicov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mednicov, Melissa L., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge research in art history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pop art--Themes, motives.

Pop art.

Art and music.

Music in art.

Arts and society--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 142 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a procedure by which Pop artists used popular music within their works to disrupt decorous modernism during the sixties. Artists, including Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol, respond to popular music for reasons such as its emotional connectivity, issues of fandom and identity, and the pleasures and problems of looking and listening to an artwork. When we both look at and listen to Pop art, essential aspects of Pop's history that have been neglected-its sounds, its women, its queerness, and its black subjects-come into focus.

Contents:

How to hear a painting : jukebox modernism and Elvis Presley in pop

Pink, white, and black : the strange case of James Rosenquist's Big Bo

The sound and look of melodrama in Pauline Boty's pop paintings

Soundtrack not included : Andy Warhol's Sleep

Sounding pop art : an exhibition history

Conclusion : contemporary jukebox modernism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Mednicov, Melissa L. Pop art and popular music.

ISBN:

9780815374206

0815374208

OCLC:

1035770356