Getting down to the nitty-gritty of pop culture...


I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. --Andy Warhol

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High Culture, Low Culture.....And Everything in Between

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Headlines

Kuspit describes art today as "grounded in codes rather than images".

For the postmodern (or po-pomo) artist, the "creation of the code becomes the primary creative act".


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"Visual culture is too interested in the question of what vision is"

Art history

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High Culture

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mass media/film studies = comfortable with low or mass culture


"Visual culture: vision is a mode of cultural expression and human communication as fundamental and widespread as language"

Jay Leno's headlines



This popular segment on the Tonight Show is all the more indicative of the importance of visual cues.

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