Attached to the Mouse

Disney and Contemporary Art

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

729 kr

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The Mouse and the Duck are celebrities created by Disney through its new art form, the animated cartoon. Using various outlets including mass-media, television, and theme parks, Disney made the Mouse an icon of corporate success and American culture. From Pop art to the present day, more than a hundred artists have incorporated the Mouse's image, humor, and nostalgia into their work. HOW AND WHY? Attached to the Mouse is the first art history analyzing use of Disney imagery by such contemporary artists as Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Warhol, Chagoya, Thiebaud, Helnwein, Boltanski, Dion, and Pensato. This book explores the impact of Disney, including artists' economic and psychological motivations, on contemporary art.Links to: Author's Website and Author's Blog for Attached to the Mouse

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Utgivningsdatum2006-08-02
Mått163 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor194
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761834748
UtmärkelserFeatured in Harper's Magazine, February 2007 article 'The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism' by Jonathan Lethem

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Part 1 PrefacePart 2 AcknowledgementsPart 3 IntroductionChapter 4 1. The Mouse: Debut, Copyright and ReferenceChapter 5 2. Artist and the Mouse: Humor, Attachment and the GambitChapter 6 3. It all Started With a MouseChapter 7 4. Nostalgia MouseChapter 8 5. Next Stop Main Street DisneylandChapter 9 6. Love and HateChapter 10 7. Portraits and the MickeyfieldChapter 11 8. It's a Grim(m) World After AllChapter 12 9. Conclusions

For at least a half-century Mickey Mouse, ears and all, has served as one of the most potent icons in contemporary visual culture.…But however much that (deceptively) ingenuous face and unique silhouette turn up in Pop paintings, social-commentary cartoons, and even abstract sculpture, writers and historians have let Mickey's ubiquity pass without substantial comment. Until now. Defying the perils of post-modernist close reading, pop-culture fetishism, and the fabled wrath of Disney Corp., Holly Crawford proffers an exhaustive documentation, classification, and analysis of Mickey's many appearances in the visual art of our time. Her study fills a gap in the critical history of recent art, not to mention in Mouseology.