Date of Award
1986
Document Type
Research Paper
Abstract
This project is a research paper on how art is now being produced to include social issues and political messages. The author writes about different exhibits and mentions various artists as examples of activist art. The paper discusses what Post-modern” exactly is as well as mentions feminist art. Furthermore, the author includes Marxism to discuss the place of the artist. The author mentions advertising as well as television and print as forms of a medium. The paper further discusses the media and their relationship to art. The goal of this project was to show the distinctions between art and media and that one of the main differences manifests itself in what is expected of the audience.
Recommended Citation
Lindquist, R. (1986). The Re-emergence of Social Concern in Contemporary Art: The Post- Modernist Critique of Mass Media. Retrieved from https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/scholars/268