The popular culture of modern art : Picasso, Duchamp, and avant-gardism /

This is a fascinating exploration of the deeply ambiguous relationship between modern art and popular culture, focusing on the work of Picasso and Duchamp in France in the first two decades of this century. Analyzing art, criticism, and popular culture of the period, Jeffrey Weiss shows that the ele...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weiss, Jeffrey S
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994
New Haven : 1994
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. "Le Journal Joue": Picasso, collage, and music-hall modernism
  • 2. "Prenez-garde a la Peinture": The avant-garde in critical and popular opinion c.1909-1914
  • 3. "Marcel Duchamp Qui est Inquietant": Avant-gardism and the culture of mystification and blague
  • 4. "Le Spectacle Interieur": Parade, popular cubism, and the law of systemic confusions
  • "Le Journal Joue": Picasso, collage, and music-hall modernism
  • "Prenez-garde a la Peinture": The avant-garde in critical and popular opinion c.1909-1914
  • "Marcel Duchamp Qui est Inquietant": Avant-gardism and the culture of mystification and blague
  • "Le Spectacle Interieur": Parade, popular cubism, and the law of systemic confusions