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A 5 page paper which examines the relationship between pop art and popular culture in America during the 1960s. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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a reflection of America and its people. Like a huge billboard of self-promotion, American popular culture represents everything that America stands for, at least as the country has chosen
to collectively define itself. It signifies the traditional values that have evolved over time, but distinguishes itself by also combining symbols that have been popularly embraced at a particular
moment in time. Like everything else, American popular culture during the 1960s represented the height of capitalism. America thrives on consumerism, so much so that it has overtaken
its contemporary culture and all of its manifestations, most notably, art. In order to gain a more complete understanding of American popular culture in the Sixties, one needs to
look no further than the artwork produced during that time period. According to essayist Leslie Fiedler, American culture at the dawn of the
1960s was primarily "middle brow," or representative of "the American fear of the vulgar" (Goodall, 1995, p. 69). In other words, because America was still relatively young in terms
of nationhood, it needed to validate its culture to the world cultures with a long and celebrated history. The only way to define its own unique identity was by
emphasizing its strengths as a highly industrialized capitalist society. An artistic movement commenced that was officially dubbed "pop art" in December of 1962 (Scherman, 2001). Pop art, according
to author John A. Walker (1994), "encompasses a wide variety of paintings, sculptures, prints and collages produced by professional artists who used popular culture and mass media material as sources
of iconography, techniques and conventions of representation" (p. 22). Immediately dubbed by critics as "the new vulgarians," pop art was blasted as being unoriginal, its artists charged with plagiarizing
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