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POP ART I: ANDY WARHOL, MARILYN MONROE, AND THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF BEAUTY
This interdisciplinary course examines New York’s Pop Art of the 1960’s, with its bold graphic design and language, its giant scale and carnival color, and its positive embrace of contemporary commodity culture. Pop Art’s bitter “pink pill†was the beauty myth as swallowed by women. Themes to be examined: Marilyn, the limpid blonde; Elvis, the gyrating body; the packaging and pursuit of beauty in Hollywood; commodity, cartoon, and comic painting; the impersonal handling of love. Research and presentations at area museums will be integral to this study. AHR-0175 or ARH–0176 are preparatory but not required. Recommended for Graphic Design students. Offered upon rotation with other courses in modern art.