Absolutely!!!
Although, I didn't interpret "sarcastic false pragmatism" with cynical, but
more with visual pun...thinking out loud here, I really like that phrase
and may make it into a stamp, over a soup can - over a soup can that says,
"Cream of Stiletto Heel Soup."
Best,
PK
ann klefstad wrote:
> In response to your lucid comparisons of flavors of Pop, Ken:
>
> I really don't think american pop was cynical in the least. I think it
> represents precisely that straightforward American pragmatism that you
> mention. There's a sort of sunny romance, a Saturday-morning bliss, to
> Warhol in particular that becomes totally obvious looking at his
> commercial work and juvenilia. (There was a wonderful show of Warhol
> drawings at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis this year that made
> this very obvious.)
>
> I don't think Rosenquist et al. differ that much. Pop seemed to be the
> becoming conscious of the phenomenon of childhood infiltrating adulthood
> that made the 60s and 70s and on possible. Grownups going to work in
> jeans and tennis shoes--what absurd luxury! Americans became the
> children of the world--competent, wealthy children, that is, people for
> whom desire, sensual whim, laughter, are some sort of right--and Pop
> was, and remains (it's a style that arises over and over, see Kara
> Walker and Lari Pittman, see a whole bunch of young LA artists) their
> very un-ironic text.
>
> AK
