ABSTRACT

Can fine art survive in an age of mass media? If so, in what forms and to what purpose? And can radical art still play a critical role in today's divided world? These are the questions addressed in the Art in the Age of Mass Media, as John Walker examines the fascinating relationship between art and mass media, and the myriad interactions between h

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|9 pages

Core Terms/Concepts

chapter 2|36 pages

Art Uses Mass Culture

chapter 3|20 pages

The Mass Media Use Art

chapter 4|11 pages

Mechanical Reproduction and the Fine Arts

chapter 5|5 pages

High Culture: Affirmative or Negative?

chapter 6|11 pages

Cultural Pluralism and Post-Modernism

chapter 7|21 pages

Alternatives

chapter 8|29 pages

Art and Mass Media in the 1980s

chapter 9|14 pages

Artists and New Media Technologies

chapter 10|5 pages

War, the Media and Art in the 1990s

chapter 11|3 pages

Conclusion