Negotiating the “Resemblances of Surfacesâ€: Painterly Abstract Painting and Consumer Culture, circa 1945-1965

Jennifer Ellen Way
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Jennifer Ellen Way: School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2004, vol. 36, issue 4, 487-505

Abstract: During the middle of the twentieth century, members of the American art world, academics from the arts and sciences, and cultural commentators all used concepts from the economy and consumer culture to describe and evaluate the meaning and significance of vanguard painterly abstract painting. Restaging their discourse reveals they perceived that consumer culture was determining the forms, uses, and values of art. However, there were alternatives, as evidenced by the early sculpture of Claes Oldenburg.

Keywords: consumer culture; Claes Oldenburg; abstract painting; commodification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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