Monday, March 27, 2006

Mass Camp

Warhol, Andy. Campbell
Warhol, Andy. Marilyn Monroe

The Donna Reed Show:

Democratizing of culture leads to "mass camp"

The preference of "mediocre mass media products over the offerings of "high culture" leads to a shift

Pop revolution celebrates objects of mass culture (see Warhol's Campbell's Soup and Marilyn) as a direct attack on high art
pretensions.

Mass camp sensibility entered mainstream culture ready to adore the mediocre, laugh at the overconventionalized and critique archaic sex roles (Donna Reed Show)

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