top of page
Material Culture
Folk...
POP...
While folklore studies had their origins with the study of verbal arts, folklore scholars in the 1970s expanded the field with important studies examining folk art and the use of objects in everyday life. Scholars of “material culture,” such as Henry Glassie and John Michael Vlach, provided important studies on the repertoires of individual craftsmen, stylistic difference, and the passing on of traditional knowledge.
Pop Art emerged in the 1950s--created by artists described as “subversive” at the time. However, the movement’s roots go back to much earlier developments, which we’ll examine in this class along with Pop Art itself. Pop artists focused on popular culture-- without either praise or criticism. It simply recognized consumerism as widespread and drew attention to that reality by way of artistic production. Pop Art ended modernism, and its party atmosphere ended with the angst and self-doubt of postmodernism
bottom of page