Cultural Offensive: America's Impact on British Art Since 1945 by John A. Walker

Author:John A. Walker [Walker, John A. & Walker, John A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Art, History, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9780745313214
Google: 2tvpAAAAMAAJ
Goodreads: 3672141
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 1998-01-15T07:58:12+00:00

… these applications of color and symbolism … can be demonstrated to follow strongly ritualized patterns, and since they deal with problems of identity, luck and honor under conditions that are commonly compared to those of battle, they may be confidently classified as a branch of heraldry, adapted to the facts and mythology of mechanical motion.71

Hence his description: ‘mobile heraldry’. This article was a deliberate attempt to bring to the American art world’s attention the kind of affectionate, informed analyses of American popular culture which had taken place at Independent Group meetings during the early 1950s.

Alistair Mackintosh has observed:

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