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British Pop Art and Postmodernism

British Pop Art was seen as an integral, even central, part of social change in the Sixties. It was a movement that developed innovative ways of dealing with reality, both reflecting on and participating in the culture. Its aesthetics was often homogeneous with the industrial, with the mass-produced, and, hence, with the artificial, manufactured character of the urban environment. This discontinuity in the traditional approach towards artistic creation furthered the globalization of diversity, which constitutes the abiding concerns of postmodern art. Drawing from postmodern thought and cultural analysis, this book critically examines British Pop Art within the broad interdisciplinary domain of the social and cultural changes that led to flexibility in conceptualization, and provides a contribution to the artistic processes which form and deform the cultural sphere, confirming its relevance to current debates in which questions of postmodern aesthetics prominently figure.


Justyna Stępień is an Assistant Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies in the English Department of Szczecin University, Poland. She is the editor of Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). Her research interests encompass the commodification of cultural productions, aspects of everyday aesthetics, and auto-creation processes analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective. She has published essays on popular culture, postmodern literature, film and visual arts, combining her interests in philosophy and critical theory.

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ISBN: 1-4438-7595-3

ISBN13: 978-1-4438-7595-0

Release Date: 1st May 2015

Pages: 185

Price: £41.99

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