Popular culture and the death of “good taste”
Rollin, Roger B
“The enemy of art is what passes for good taste.” –Walter Hill
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Category: National Forum
Art when you least expect it
Beal, Heather
As the younger of two children, I learned the meaning of “provoke” early in life. My pare…
“The life of our design”: Advancing American Art
Littleton, Taylor D
For the last two years we have repeatedly been told in televisi…
passing of post-modernism: Cultural influences in design, The
Zwirn, Robert
If you were considering a building in the post-modern id…
spirit that builds, The
Young, Stephen Flinn
It began innocently enough. In May of 1992 William C. Baggett, painter and professor of…
Humanics: The fourth dimension of design
Pulos, Arthur J
Industrial design is concerned with the universal products of survival rath…
Race and racism in America
Jackson, Jesse L Sr
For a long time, the racial paradigm in America has been defined as the dynamic set o…
Culture “of the people, by the people, for the people”
Browne, Ray B
Culture, to many people, was still rooted in the past, in the o…
resurgence of folk music in popular culture, The
Littleton, Mary Wood
“We were searching for definition in our lives…” –Eric von …
Comics and culture
Lippert, David
In current studies of comic books, or “sequential art” as many comics scholars now call comic book…
