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Art and Advertising.


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Art and advertising.

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, Joan.

I.B. Tauris I. B. Tauris (usually typeset as I.B.Tauris) is the name of an independent publishing house with offices in London and New York. Its New York offices are co-located with those of Palgrave Macmillan who function as the company's North American distributors.  & Co.

2005

198 pages

$24.50

Paperback

NC997

Some see contemporary art and advertising as enemies or opposites, one being free of commercial concerns and the other dependent on them. Gibbons (U. of Central England, Birmingham) argues, however, for a mutually enriching relationship between the two, showing how artists have embraced the tactics and mass media of advertising and advertising has become aware of the issues and strategies of art. She looks at the work of artists including Andy Warhol Noun 1. Andy Warhol - United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987)
Warhol
, Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) is an American conceptual artist. She was born in Newark, New Jersey and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. After a year at Syracuse, she moved to New York, where she began attending Parsons School of Design. , and Viktor Burgin and landmark campaigns from advertisers including Benneton, Nike, and Absolut Vodka. The volume makes effective use of b&w images. Distributed in the US by Palgrave.

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