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OverviewArtists such as Picasso and Dali ushered in a new relationship between the artist and mass culture. With the emergence of movies, the painter became a more marginal figure, and it is perhaps in response to this new condition that popular culture itself became a subject of art. Likewise, the emergence of radio and Internet-distributed art have created displacements in the field of artistic practice. In the Society of the Spectacle, the role that artists have played as the conscience of their societies (Mc Luhan?) has become problematic because of the sheer profitability of controlling the spectacular media. Pop embraces the possibilities and limits of the arts in this mass-culture context, and in so doing clarifies the condition of the arts in late capitalism.ResourcesGuy Debord. Society of the Spectacle. Zone Books. 1994.LecturePop: Art, Politics and the Spectacle slides |