... was appreciate pop culture's dynamic effect on society and on our daily perception of life. They effectively recognized its "pervasive presence as a natural fact" (Gersh-Nesic, Pop Art - Art History 101 Basics). A mass market and mass appeal go hand-in-hand with modern commercialism. More variety and more affordability keep the economic machine going. It was in this artistic ... When he tired of the everyday, his imagination turned to the more shocking: scenes of car wrecks and electric chairs. Andy Warhol's 1962 Gold Marilyn Monroe was a perfect example of the ironic essence of Pop Art...

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... something of mystery until a person understands the main concerns of the postmodernists. Although I finally understood postmodernism in relation to Andy Warhol and his art, a topic that I find even more interesting is postmodernism in literature. Unbeknownst to me, I had been reading postmodern literature for years without ever ... about what good literature should be; his subversion of literature is parallel to the subversion found in other postmodern works of art, especially in Warhol's art. Even from the onset of the novel, the way in which authorship is handled is vastly different fr...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate