Popular art and so-called mass culture have become a kind of wonderland and must be understood as a central phenomenon for contemporary intellectuals to address. Such attention has to do with their undeniable impact and influence on people’s opinions and taste preferences, their choices as consumers of commodities of all kinds, and even on their sociopolitical views at a global level. Considering the mutual relations between different dimensions (above all, the relations between art, society, and politics), this contribution explore some of the various aesthetic, intellectual, political and cultural processes that inform how people experience popular culture and react to it today.
Letter from the Editors: Contemporary Popular Culture and Social Criticism
VALENTINA ANTONIOL
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2021-01-01
Abstract
Popular art and so-called mass culture have become a kind of wonderland and must be understood as a central phenomenon for contemporary intellectuals to address. Such attention has to do with their undeniable impact and influence on people’s opinions and taste preferences, their choices as consumers of commodities of all kinds, and even on their sociopolitical views at a global level. Considering the mutual relations between different dimensions (above all, the relations between art, society, and politics), this contribution explore some of the various aesthetic, intellectual, political and cultural processes that inform how people experience popular culture and react to it today.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
