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It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art (Art & Design) by David S Rubin; Exhibition It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll, Currents in Contemporary Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Ausstellung It's Only Rock and Roll is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art (Art & Design) about?

This documentation traces the imagery in contemporary art that has been inspired by rock and roll from its beginnings in the 1950s right up to 1995. The author explains that it was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who first coined the phrase "rock and roll", at a time when contemporary art was poles apart from the masses. Art critics considered the Abstract Expressionist artists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, to be beyond everyday human experience. With the teenagers of a new generation accounting for more than half of all record sales, rock and roll was soon set to influence emergent young artists. In the late fifties Ray Johnson, Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton were the first to incorporate rock images and influences in their work. The book comprises a series of contributions, each of which examines different aspects of the influences in a chronological sequence.^ Often different artists were influenced by different aspects of rock and roll - Warhol, Grooms, Cleveland and Koons for instance were influenced by stardom. Other artists used rock personalities' names for titles of abstract compositions to impose the complexities of the celebrity on their work. The in

Author

David S Rubin; Exhibition It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll, Currents in Contemporary Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Ausstellung It's Only Rock and Roll

Publisher

Prestel. ein Label der Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9783791316277

Subjects

Art, Music, History