Talking heads – Love for sale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQ0cbjFiPo

Talking heads – Love for sale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQ0cbjFiPo

This video includes a lot of advertising. A LOT.

Chocolate Oscars etc.

Capitalist society went to the peak of consumption and everything was for sale. This video shows it. So, it almost seems possible at that time that you can buy 2 kilos of love.

Today I’m not gonna show you too much art. I’m gonna show things that u like. You like Gucci, right? Milan?

We’re gonna talk about very ‘normal’ things.

Music festivals transform into mud fights in England. Because the English like music and it rains a lot.

Under Popular Culture’s obsession with a naïve inclusion, everything is OK. And that’s the bit of a danger of the society. Everyone can go to Starbucks. Its dangerous because everything is allowed and normal, but some things do go wrong when you use this approach.

You all know what popular means – you all go to starbucks, buy colgate and listen to popular music.

Popular culture, or pop culture is the vernacular (people's) culture that prevails in a modern society. The content of popular culture is determined in large part by industries that disseminate cultural material, for example the film, television, and publishing industries, as well as the news and social media. But popular culture cannot be described as just the aggregate product of those industries; instead, it is the result of a continuing interaction between those industries and the people of the society who consume their products.

Without the people the product doesn’t exist. Nobody makes beer for the sake of beer.

Some artist used pop culture in art. (There was this guy called Andy Warhol) But pop art and popular art should not be confused. These terms are not the same.

Although terms popular culture and pop culture are in some cases used interchangeably, and their meanings partially overlap, the term "pop", which dates from the late 1950s, belongs to a particular society and historical period. Pop refers more specifically to something containing qualities of mass appeal, while "popular" refers to what has gained popularity, regardless of its style.

If we didn’t have mass production we would not have pop products.

Identifying the distinguishing characteristics of popular culture:

1) Being associated with commercial products

2) Developing from a local to a national to a global level

3) Allowing consumers to have widespread access to it

4) Constantly changing and evolving

If a singe hallmark of popular culture exists, it is change

Qu’ils mangent de la brioche!

Let them eat brioche!, attributed to Marie Antoinette

populism (ˈpɒpjʊˌlɪzəm)

n

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a political strategy based on a calculated appeal to the interests or prejudices of ordinary people

“Bread and Circuses” is a metaphor for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion, distraction, and/or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace, as an offered “palliative.” Juvenal decried it as a simplistic motivation of common people. The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of the common man.

Bread and circuses – your mouth is full, your mouth is laughing, you are distracted from reality.

What is popular culture?

· Composed of recognizable elements (people don’t like avant-garde – it has spikes, it can hurt you)

· Genres

· Beliefs implicitly shared

· Assumed shared values

· Shared historical memory (sense of nostalgia)

· Iconic figures work as embodiments of values, aspirations, esteem, and objects of criticism

Conspicuous consumption

Conspicuous consumption is a term introduced by the Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen in his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" published in 1899.

The term refers to consumers who buy expensive items to display wealth and income rather than to cover the real needs of the consumer. - http://www.conspicuousconsumption.org

In the 20th and 21st centuries we can also witness an expansion of conspicuous consumption associated with addictive or narcissistic behavior induced by consumerism, the desire for immediate gratification and a rise in hedonistic expectations.

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.

James Buchan

I think; therefore I am.

Rene Descartes

Barbara Kruger

Great halls of trade

Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament, best known for designing The Crystal Palace, home of the Creat London Exhibition, 1851.

The prefabricated glass and iron structural techniques which Paxton pioneered and would employ for his masterpiece. These techniques were made physically possible by recent technological advances in the manufacture of both glass and cast iron, and financially possible by the dropping of a tax on glass.

This ideal scheme (never built) was an extension of the principles Paxton used in the design of the Crystal Palace. The intention was to form a covered way, circular in its route, which would keep out the dirt, rain, fog, smoke, damp and cold of the London climate. Paxton proposed using the recently invented smokeless pneumatic railway, in conjunction with covered streets, lined with high-class shops and superior dwellings, to make what was, from the point of view of transport facilities at least, a prophetic forerunner of the Circle Line, which now largely uses the route that Paxton put forward. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1108503/design-for-the-great-victorian-drawing-paxton-joseph-sir/

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There’s nothing I’d ever buy, but I like it here. It’s wacky!

Johnny Rotten

“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”

Michel Foucault

Shopping centers have become increasingly more generic and similar offering unmasked globalized lack of individuality.

Celebrity. Is a necessary product of popular culture.

· Figures from all areas of popular cultures

· Athletes singers actors etc. all part of celebrity machine

· Individuals cross boundaries because of their celebrity

· Who do we need celebrity

· Is there a difference between celebrity and famous

· Defining celebrity

· Someone who is famous and attract edit attention

· Subjects of news stories

· Is it synonymous with fame?

· Notoriety wealth

· Fascination with the private and the personal

· Distinction between being a celebrity

· Hitler bin laden the queen Jesus

· Subject or object

· Technologies of production and consumption

· Consequence of free-market capitalism

· Connections to totalitarian cult of personality

· Product of the mass production

· Media or celeb constantly creating on and from itself

· Classic postmodern form of a celebrity is a consequence of media coverage rather than an a priori condition of media interest

· Celebrity bleeds across the media

· The site if meeting

· Celebrity as a symptom of sick society

· Bread and Circuses

· Voyeuristic

· Sensationalistic

· Trivial

· Childish

· Simple minded

· Crass and superficial

· Success in some occupations will automatically confer celebrity status

· Film, music, football, media, etc.

· Celebrity transcends that for which they originally became famous to something ambiguous

· Celebrity increasingly seen as a career in and of itself

· Metaphysics of Celebrity

· Celebrities are not real people. They do not exist, They appear human but they are not.

· They occupy a separate dimension where physical laws do not apply.

· They have their own pantheon

· We confirm their existence and sense of self

· Generate income

· Support process of mass visual media

· We give them life

· Without an audience celebrity has no existence

What do they do for us?

· Why are we so fascinated by celebrity?

· What function do they perform?

· We live in a world where success is defined by visibility and material reward

· We are taught to understand ourselves and others as visual objects to be consumed

· To be consumed is to be wanted and loved

Pop art

Pop artists seemed to have identified all the things that classified “high” art and did the exact opposite

Pop Art was considered “low” art by many art critics

It aimed to challenge the idea of placing artistic expression of a hierarchy

Despite criticism it was highly successful within the art market

Richard Hamilton

Pop culture is fundamentally conservative

Designed to “reaffirm, through cultural symbols…”

Kate Moss

Your art doesn’t really need to be good, you just have to be surrounded by celebrities

Gary Hume

Lucian Freud

Marc Quinn

Corinne Day

“In the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes” (Andy Warhol)

this will include you… because you are PHINE ARTISTS!

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