A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

Whiting, Cécile

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Cécile Whiting

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00003

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When Pop art paintings depicted Campbell’s soup cans or comic-book scenes of teen romance, did they stoop to the level of their mundane sources, or did they instead transmogrify the detritus of consumer culture into high art? In this study, Cécile Whiting declares the issue fundamentally irresolvable and instead takes the question itself, along with the varied answers it has generated, as the object of her analysis. Whiting presents case studies that focus on works by four artists—Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Marisol Escobar—who are closely associated with the Pop-art movement. Throughout her engaging analyses, Whiting unravels the gendered overtones of their cultural manoeuverings, noting how the connotations of masculinity as attached to the seriousness of high art and the presumed frivolity and caprice of a feminine world of consumption repositioned cultural frontiers and reformulated the relation between sexes.

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Cécile Whiting

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date May 1997 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780521450041

EISBN 9780300246087

Illustrations 77

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List of illustrations

Installation of Andy Warhol's Pop-art canvases in the storefront window of Bonwit Teller, New York
Bonwit Teller Window Display
Window Shoppers on Fifth Avenue
Claes Oldenburg in His Store
Shoppers on Orchard Street
Supermarket Exhibition at Bianchini Gallery
Old Fashioned Grocery Store vs. Supermarket
What Makes Women Buy
Supermarket Exhibition at Bianchini Gallery
Campbell's Soup advertisement
Andy Warhol and Campbell Soup Can Pyramids at Bianchini Gallery
Mrs. Kraushar in Her Bathroom
Still Life #30
When Nixon Met Khrushchev During Their Tour of An American Exhibition in Moscow
Kitchen
High-brow, Low-brow, Middle-brow
Great American Nude #6
Still Life #31
Great American Nude #48
Still Life #20
Living Room with Renoir Painting
Bathtub Collage #3
Kohler advertisement
Great American Nude #26
Great American Nude #52
Bedroom Ensemble
View of Interior of Kraushar Home in Lawrence, New York
Contemporary living room interior
Mr. and Mrs. Kraushar with art dealer Ben Birillo in the collectors' living room
Ethel Scull with Portrait by Andy Warhol
Mr. Kraushar in Bathroom
Mr. Kraushar in Bedroom
Playboy's Weekend Hideaway
Ben Heller's Living Room with Pollock's Blue Poles
Coupon for Sunlight automatic dishwasher detergent
Panel from "Run for Love!"
Hopeless
Whaam!
Okay, Hot-Shot
Panel from "Haunted Tank vs. Killer Tank"
Panel from "Run for Love!"
Drowning Girl
As I Opened Fire. . .
Eddie Diptych
Illustration from Erle Loran, Pop Artists or Copy Cats?
Little Big Painting
Roy Lichtenstein and his son Mitchell
Brazil Coffee advertisement
Marilyn Monroe
Publicity still of Marilyn Monroe for the film Niagara
Liz
Blue Liz as Cleopatra
Marilyn in Vogue
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn
A Slight Misfit
Elvis, I
The Week That Was I
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne
Look Alike (Edie Sedgewick and Andy Warhol at the Silver Factory)
Judy Garland
Women and Dog
Women and Dog (view from the back)
Marisol Escobar with One of the Sculptures from The Party
Marisol Escobar
Marisol Escobar
Helen Frankenthaler in her New York Studio
Jane Wilson
Model with Marisol Escobar's Untitled
Model with Tom Wesselmann's Mouth #7
Model with Vasarely's Onix 2 and Minta
Model with George Segal's Walking Man
Artists' Fur Coats
The Modern American Wife
This is Your Wife
The Party

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Cécile Whiting

A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

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Illustrations

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A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

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A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

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Introduction

Cécile Whiting

A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

While in the final stages of completing this manuscript, I chanced upon Lucy Lippard’s sharp rebuke of both Pop art and its champions for their aggressive colonization of the “woman’s domain.” I felt amused, vindicated, and deflated all at once. During the many years I had devoted to this project I had believed I would be the first to...

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Cécile Whiting

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Pop artStereotypes (Social psychology) in artArt and society--United States--History--20th centuryArt critics--United States--20th centuryFeminism--United States--History--20th centuryConsumer (Economics)--United States--History--20th century

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1. Shopping for Pop

Cécile Whiting

A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

“The truth is, the art galleries are being invaded by the pinheaded and contemptible style of gum chewers, bobby soxers, and worse, delinquents,” complained Max Kozloff in March 1962 ...

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Cécile Whiting

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00003.005

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Chapter subject tags:Pop artBrand name products in artConsumer (Economics)--United States--History--20th centuryFeminism--United States--History--20th centuryWomen consumers--United States--20th centuryArt and society--United States--History--20th century

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2. Wesselmann and Pop at Home

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A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

In the early 1960s, art collector Leon Kraushar bought Tom Wesselmann’s Bathtub Collage #1 of 1963 and hung it on the wall of his home ...

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Cécile Whiting

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.50-99

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00003.006

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Chapter subject tags:Pop artWomen consumers--United States--20th centuryConsumer (Economics)--United States--History--20th centuryCollectors and collecting--United States--20th centuryWesselmann, Tom, 1931-2004

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3. Lichtenstein's Borrowed Spots

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A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

A young brunette stares, horror-struck, at the glass she balances between her well-manicured fingertips ...

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Cécile Whiting

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.100-145

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00003.007

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Chapter subject tags:Pop artLichtenstein, Roy, 1923–1977Women consumers--United States--20th centuryStereotypes (Social psychology) in artFeminism--United States--History--20th centuryArt critics--United States--20th centuryGreenberg, Clement, 1909-1994

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4. Warhol, the Public Star and the Private Self

Cécile Whiting

A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

A painting of a person’s face may have little to do with the sitter’s personality: Andy Warhol portrayed Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, and other movie stars in the early 1960s strictly in their role as public icons ...

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Cécile Whiting

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.146-186

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Chapter subject tags:Pop artWarhol, Andy, 1928-1987Brand name products in artArt and society--United States--History--20th centuryConsumer (Economics)--United States--History--20th centuryCelebrities in art--United States--20th centuryMonroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962

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5. Figuring Marisol's Femininities

Cécile Whiting

A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

In Marisol’s sculpture Women and Dog of 1964, three fashionably dressed women and a little girl stroll side-by-side, a well-groomed dog in tow ...

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Cécile Whiting

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.187-230

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00003.009

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Chapter subject tags:Pop artWomen artists--United States--20th centurySculpture, American--20th centuryMarisol, 1930-2016Art and society--United States--History--20th centuryArt critics--United States--20th centuryFashion photography--United States--20th century

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Conclusion

Cécile Whiting

A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture

~In this book, I have highlighted a select number of Pop-art images and exhibitions that intersected with practices of consumer culture considered feminine in the early 1960s. As we have seen, Pop art and its presentation in public pirated motifs, mimicked modes of display, and invited forms of evaluation associated with...

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Cécile Whiting

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Pop art

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