Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Core Terms/Concepts
2. Art Uses Mass Culture
3. The Mass Media Use Art
4. Mechanical Reproduction and the Fine Arts
5. High Culture: Affirmative or Negative?
6. Cultural Pluralism and Post-Modernism
7. Alternatives
8. Art and Mass Media in the 1980s
9. Artists and New Media Technologies
10. War, The Media and Art in the 1990s
11. Conclusion
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

John A Walker is the author of a number of books on art theory and aspects of popular culture. His previous Pluto titles are Cultural Offensive: America's Impact on British Art since 1945, Art in the Age of Mass Media and Design History and the History of Design.

Reviews

'Lucid, well documented and argumentative.' Times Literary Supplement 'A vastly entertaining read...undoubtedly one of the best entrees to this area.' The Modern Review