A Power Institute Lecture PROFESSOR THOMAS CROW
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 6:30pm
Co-presented with Sydney Ideas and the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney.
The Death and Life of Pop Art in the 1960s Counter-Culture
Pop enlarged the capacity of fine art to channel deep but inchoate feelings in whole populations normally put off by the exclusivity of museums and galleries. But by the end of the decade, Pop seemed rapidly to fade, enduring as a set of fine individual careers but no longer a vital tendency still attracting young adherents. Or so it might have seemed.
Professor Thomas Crow, the author of seminal texts on post-war American art, teaches at the Institute of Fine Arts New York. He was previously the Director of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. His lecture will examine how the international counter-culture kept Pop current but in the process surpassed, dispersed, and ultimately obscured the sources.
See http://www.seymourcentre.com/events/event/sydney-ideas-professor-thomas-crow/ for booking information. (marq)… (more)
The Death and Life of Pop Art in the 1960s Counter-Culture
Pop enlarged the capacity of fine art to channel deep but inchoate feelings in whole populations normally put off by the exclusivity of museums and galleries. But by the end of the decade, Pop seemed rapidly to fade, enduring as a set of fine individual careers but no longer a vital tendency still attracting young adherents. Or so it might have seemed.
Professor Thomas Crow, the author of seminal texts on post-war American art, teaches at the Institute of Fine Arts New York. He was previously the Director of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. His lecture will examine how the international counter-culture kept Pop current but in the process surpassed, dispersed, and ultimately obscured the sources.
See http://www.seymourcentre.com/events/event/sydney-ideas-professor-thomas-crow/ for booking information. (marq)… (more)
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