Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture examines the socially
and aesthetically subversive character of pop art. Providing a
historically contextualized reading of American pop art, Sara Doris
locates the movement within the larger framework of the social,
cultural and political transformations of the 1960s. She
demonstrates how pop art's use of discredited mass-cultural imagery
worked to challenge established social and cultural hierarchies. At
the same time, its affinities with marginalized forms of taste -
gay Camp and youth culture - allied it with the proto-political
changes foreshadowing the radical politics that emerged late in the
decade. Pop art's subversive critique of consumer culture also
served as a crucial precedent for postmodernist practices. By
analyzing pop art within the context of the broader social
upheavals of the 1960s, this study establishes that it was both a
significant participant in those transformations and that it
profoundly shaped today's postmodern culture.
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