Double lives in art and pop music / Jörg Heiser ; translation, Nicholas Grindell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heiser, Jörg.

Contributor:

Grindell, Nick.

Standardized Title:

Doppelleben: Kunst und Popmusik. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Art and music--History.

Art and music.

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Musicians as artists.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

311 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2019]

Summary:

Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use the skills she developed in the artistic avant-garde in pop music, and what drew John Lennon, in turn, to visual art? Why, in 1982, did Joseph Beuys record the pop single ?Sonne statt Reagan,? and why, around the same time did, West German artists such as Michaela Melián move into pop music? In 'Double Lives in Art and Pop Music', Jörg Heiser argues that context shifting between art and pop music is an attempt to find solutions for contradictions faced in one field of cultural production. Heiser looks closely at the careers of artists and pop musicians who work in both fields professionally. The seeming acceptance and effortlessness today of current border crossings can be deceptive, since they might be serving vested economic or ideological interests. Exploring a pop and art history of more than fifty years, Heiser shows that those leading double lives in art and pop music may often be best able to detect these vested interests while he points toward radical alternatives.

Contents:

Introduction : Dissolution of Disciplines, or Kicking at Open Doors in Art?

Genealogies

Context Switching between Art and Pop Music

Art Form, Crossover, Hybridization

The Right Thing in the Wrong Space, the Wrong Thing in the Right Space : Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, and the Role Reversals of the Artist

Soup Cans, Early Factory

The Velvet Years, the Mainstream

Splits in the Counterculture

Factory Utopia, Factory Dystopia

Two Gurus in Drag : Yoko Ono and John Lennon Politicize the Role of the Pop Star

Reception History

Work Partners, Love Partners

Lennonʼs Art, Onoʼs Pop Music

Utopian Life Model

Time out of Joint : The Disjunction of Politics, Pop Music, and Art in West Germany

The Possibilities of the Rhineland

Living the Nightlife

Kraftwerk : The Conceptualization of Pop Music

Beuys and the Band

Punk after Beuys

Walter Dahn : Between Generations

Markus Oehlen and Albert Oehlen : Style and Attitude

Michaela Melián : Yes to the Modern World

Kai Althoff : An Imaginary History of Simultaneity

A Daydream of Politics, Pop Music, and Art in Sync

Electronic Bodies : Synesthesia and Synchronicity, Cut-Ups, Interference, Super-Hybridity

The Dream of Technical Synchrony, the Reality of Interference

Brian Eno : Ambience and Conflict

Laurie Anderson : Only an Expert Can Deal with the Problem

Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle : Electronics and Body Cut-Ups

Carsten Nicolai : Combining and Separating

Fatima Al Qadiri : Gulf Futurism, Super-Hybridity

Conclusion

World Upside Down : Art and Pop Music from the Mid-1990s to the 2010s

Trading Places

Context Switching and Societal Change

Context Switching and the Power of Judgment

Bibliography

Discography

Image Credits

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

"First published as Doppelleben: Kunst und Popmusik (Hamburg: Philo Fine Arts, 2015)."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3956790952

9783956790959

OCLC:

1091003206

Publisher Number:

99984135441