An invaluable introduction to the continuing debates between high art and low culture for students of media and cultural studies and art history.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction1Core Terms/Concepts2Art Uses Mass Culture3The Mass Media Use Art4Mechanical Reproduction and the Fine Arts5High Culture: Affirmative or Negative?6Cultural Pluralism and Post-Modernism7Alternatives8Art and Mass Media in the 1980s9Artists and New Media Technologies10War, The Media and Art in the 1990s11ConclusionNotes and ReferencesBibliographyIndex