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Contemporary Artists and Their Critics presents a broad range of writings on contemporary art by some of the most astute critics at work today. Combining the methods of art criticism and art history, their essays, published here in anthologised form, are at once scholarly and timely, analytic and evaluative, a record and critique of art events. Books in this series are on the 'cutting edge' of thinking about contemporary art and deal with the complexity of contemporary art from a wide perspective, in terms of both point of view and writing.

  • General Editors: Donald Kuspit, State Univeristy of New York, Stony Brook

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Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism
  • Sylvia Harrison
  • Published online:
    23 July 2009
    Print publication:
    27 August 2001
  • Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism examines the critical reception of Pop Art in America during the 1960s. Comparing the ideas of a group of New York-based critics, including Leo Steinberg, Susan Sontag, and Max Kozloff, among others, Sylvia Harrison demonstrates how their ideas - broadly categorized as either sociological or philosophical - bear a striking similarity to the body of thought and opinion which is now associated with deconstructive post-modernism. Perceived through these disciplinary lenses, Pop Art arises as not only a reflection of the dominance of mass communications and capitalist consumerism in post-war American society, but also a subversive commentary on worldviews and the factors necessary for their formation.