Provides a cross-cultural perspective on the aesthetics and politics of pop art. This book contains eight illustrated essays, which take a look at the turning point from modernism to post-modernism, casting light on the shifting boundaries of 'high' and 'low' in different national and international[...]
For anyone who thinks the question of abstract art is settled, this book will come as a surprise. Discrepant abstraction is hybrid and partial, elusive and repetitive, obstinate and strange. It includes almost everything that does not neatly fit into the institutional narrative of abstract art as a [...]