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    <title>Artculture</title>
    <subTitle>essays on the post-modern</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Davis, Douglas M.  (Douglas Matthew)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1933-2014</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Sandler, Irving</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1925-2018</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Icon Editions</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1977</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1977</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Artculture is a collection of nine essays exploring how art and culture are transformed in the postmodern era. Douglas Davis examines the impact of media technologies like photography, video, and television on artistic practice and audience experience. He challenges traditional ideas of artistic autonomy, arguing that art is always shaped by politics, institutions, and mass culture. The book questions the future of museums, the decline of pop art, and the relevance of utopian thinking in a fragmented, media-saturated world. Davis offers a critical, forward-looking perspective on how art must adapt to a rapidly changing cultural landscape.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Artpolitics.--The size of non-size.--What is content?--Photography as culture.--Filmgoing/videogoing.--The decline and fall of pop.--The idea of a twenty-first century museum.--Utopia.--Post-modern form.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Douglas Davis ; Introduction by Irving Sandler.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Arts, Modern</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Artes modernas</topic>
    <temporal>Siglo XX</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Avant-garde (Aesthetics)</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Vanguardia (Estética)</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">NX 458 D261a 1977</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">700/.9/04</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0064310000</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780064310000</identifier>
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