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Global Pop? Pop Art in a Global Context

 Tutor: James Boden

This module aims to investigate the current attempt to view Pop Art as a global phenomenon – as exemplified by upcoming exhibitions at Tate Modern and the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis. The module aims to closely define the term Pop Art through a broad investigation of ideas such as consumerism, high and low culture, and the political potential of pop work. It will also look at the question of canonicity and centre and periphery in relation to the term.

The second half of the course will examine particular case studies of works made outside of the USA in order to test the claim that something like a global Pop art movement existed. This module aims to increase student’s awareness of art from across the globe and to think through the critical issues that work raises for the kind of terminology we use to describe it.

Wang Guangyi, Great Criticism - Coca Cola, 2004

Wang Guangyi, Great Criticism - Coca Cola, 2004

Module Code HOA00044H