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St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. U-Z,Index

By Sara Pendergast , Tom Pendergast

Book information

Publisher
St. James Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9781558624009, 1-558-62400-7, 1-558-62401-5, 1558624023, 1558624031, 155862404X, 1558624058
LCC
E169.1 .S764 2000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9230341 bytes)
Volume
Vol. 5.
Edition
1
Pages
417\417
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34
Культурология;Массовая культура;Энциклопедии

Description

Sometimes, when I'm wandering in an art museum looking at the relics of an ancient civilization, I find myself wondering how a future society would represent a defunct American culture. What objects would be chosen—or would survive—to be placed on display? Would I agree with a curator's choices? Were I to choose the items that some future American Museum of Art should exhibit to represent twentieth-century American culture, here are some I would name: an tilvis Presley record; a Currier & Ives print; a movie still from Casablanca. To put it a different way, my priority would not be to exhibit fragments of an urban cathedral, a painted landscape, or a formal costume. I wouldn't deny such objects could be important artifacts of American culture, or that they belong in a gallery. But in my avowedly biased opinion, the most vivid documents of American life—the documents that embody its possibilities and limits—arc typically found in its popular culture.

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