1st Edition

Pop Art and Popular Music Jukebox Modernism

By Melissa L. Mednicov Copyright 2018
152 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a procedure by which Pop artists used popular music within their works to disrupt decorous modernism during the sixties . Artists, including Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, James Rosenquist, and Andy... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Towards a Definition of Jukebox Modernism

Chapter 1: How to Hear a Painting: Jukebox Modernism and Elvis Presley in Pop

Chapter 2: Pink, White, and Black: The Strange Case of James Rosenquist's Big Bo

Chapter 3: The Sound and Look of Melodrama in Pauline Boty’s Pop Paintings

Chapter 4: Soundtrack Not Included: Andy Warhol’s Sleep

Chapter 5: Sounding Pop Art: An Exhibition History

Conclusion: Contemporary Jukebox Modernism

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Melissa Mednicov is Assistant Professor of Art History at Sam Houston State University.