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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynda Joy Sperling |
| ISBN: | 0313318085 9780313318085 |
| OCLC Number: | 51290135 |
| Description: | xiv, 277 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : differences and distinctions of art in/to popular culture -- pt. 1. Ancient monuments and monuments to wealth : travel and tourism -- Stonehenge -- The Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu -- The second coffin of Tutankhamun -- The Great Wall of China -- The Taj Mahal -- pt. 2. Renaissance masters : scholarship and museums -- Sandro Botticelli, La primavera -- Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona Lisa -- Raphael Sanzio, The school of Athens -- Michelangelo Buonarroti, The creation of Adam -- Titian, Venus of Urbino -- pt. 3. Monuments to and of the modern world : money and memory -- Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, Liberty enlightening the world (the Statue of Liberty) -- Gustave Eiffel, The Eiffel Tower -- Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, the Empire State Building -- Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim Museum -- Maya Lin, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- pt. 4. Nineteenth-century art : the advertising age of artists -- James A.M. Whistler, Arrangement in grey and black : portrait of the painter's mother -- Georges Seurat, Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte -- Edgar Degas, the Little dancer, age 14 -- Vincent Van Gogh, Starry night -- Auguste Rodin, the Thinker -- Claude Monet, Nympheas (Waterlilies) -- pt. 5. The twentieth-century : art and/into popular culture -- Grant Wood, American Gothic -- Salvador Dalí, The persistence of memory -- Edward Hopper, Nighthawks -- Jackson Pollack, Autumn rhythm -- Andy Warhol, Marilyn -- Alexander Calder, Untitled mobile -- Keith Harrigan, Untitled (Winged baby) -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Reichstag. |
| Responsibility: | Joy Sperling. |
Abstract:
Certain works of art-Mona Lisa, the Statue of Liberty, Rodin's The Thinker, Grant Wood's American Gothic-are famous to everyone: those who love art and those who are generally indifferent to it. This volume considers 29 works of art and examines the ways in which they have transcended the art world and become facets of the popular imagination. Sperling (art, Denison U.) considers how 30 great works of art-such as the Mona Lisa and the Statue of Liberty-have become part of popular culture. She begins by exploring the role of travel, tourism, photography, and books in making certain ancient monuments world famous. Other topics include, for example, how coffee-table books helped make a number of Italian Renaissance paintings ubiquitous, how marketing embedded a number of modern memorials in the public consciousness, and how twentieth-century artists endeavor to strike a balance between critical and popular fame. Thirty art works that have become facets of the popular imagination are examined.
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