Pop Art and the Contest Over American Culture

Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Hardcover. VG/VG (Used) : Dust jacket has no damage other than an ex-library label on spine and is taped to inner boards. Book is clean and tight with library stamps on publication page, all page blocks, and inside back cover, along with two stickers inside back cover. Some light pencil marks throughout text, but are easily erasable.. Smooth red boards with gold text embossed on spine, color illust. dj (mustard yellow and dark burgundy) wrapped in mylar cover and taped inside boards. xii + 304 pages of text with 49b/w illustrations throughout. "... examines the socially and aesthetically subversive character of the movement that transformed American art and culture in the 1960s. Providing a historically contextualized reading of American pop art, Sara Doris locates the movement within the larger framework of the social, cultural, and political transformations of that decade." (-From inside front flap of dj.) Contains a Table of contents which identifies the following sections: 1) The Contest Over Culture, 1939-1966; 2) The Perils of Affluence; 3) Pop Art, Pop Culture, and the Transformation of Taste; 4) Pop Art, Pop Fashion, and the "Youthquake;" 5) Pop Art, Obsolescence, and Camp. Also contains a list of illustrations, and Introduction, a section of Notes, and a Bibliography and Index.