ANT322H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pop Art, Dollhouse, Critical Mass
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25 question multiple choice midterm on chapters 1&2 feb 12th. All of my notes deleted . up until neomania this is what i remember from lecture. Rebellion: silent rebellion in music, art (pop art), literature (beat writers, also lifestyle. This type of culture is dissonant: people living within it thus become dissonant. Pop art: started in the 50s, andy warhol came after, but was part of pop art movement, artists depicted soup cans, celebrities (marilyn monroe), superheroes = everyday life, depicts what is popular, what people saw everyday. Bathes: wrote book mythologies, people began to pay attention to his writing, created concept of neomania. Neomania: people want to constantly buy: all about commoditization of the era, reproduction of commodities and culture, ex. Making the same type of music: pop art sees this commoditization, and the. 60s you have creation of the mall: people go to just hang out.
