Modern art and popular culture [ Texto impreso] : readings in high & low / edited by Kirk Varnedoe, Adam Gopnik ; with essays by John E. Bowlt ... [et al.].

High and low before their time: Bernini and the art of social satire / Irving Lavin -- Subjects from common life in the real language of men: popular art and modern tradition in nineteenth-century french painting / Lorenz Eitner -- Picasso, collage, and the music hall / Jeffrey S. Weiss -- Cubism as pop art / Robert Rosenblum -- A brazen Can-Can in the temple of art: the russian avant-garde and popular culture / John E. Bowlt -- No joy in Mudville: Greenberg's modernism / Robert Storr -- The independent group: british and american pop art, a "palimpcestuous" legacy / Lynne Cooke -- Golden days / Peter Plagens -- The last cause: at the bethany theater / Roger Shattuck

"At the end of the twentieth century, we have become accustomed to the idea that the visual slang of modern culture - from the thick outlines of comic-strip drawings, through the bold, blaring colors of billboards, to syncopated fragments of newspaper headlines - can be made part of the language of serious art. But we also know that these transformations -the caricatured face in serious painting, the soup-can label on the museum wall -have been a source of controversy and disapproval since their first appearances. How did this momentous transformation in our sense of the hierarchy of high and low art begin? What are its central recurring issues, and who are its authors? Modern Art and Popular Culture: Readings in High & Low offers critical and scholarly essays on seminal moments in this history. From Bernini's caricatures to the art of the Russian avant-garde, from the music halls of Paris in the Belle Epoque to the sunlit studios of Los Angeles in the sixties, some of the most distinguished art historians and critics of our time offer individual perspectives on the modernsit revolution in high and low." (cubierta posterior)