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Contemporary art and fashion: from Pop to Populist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Darlene Tong
Darlene Tong*
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
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Abstract

During the 1970s and 1980s, a number of American artists have made use of clothing as an art medium. Their work constitutes a new art movement, drawing on, and straddling divisions between, Pop Art, performing arts, popular culture, and fashion; it merits more thorough and accessible documentation, and there is a need for art libraries to make available the elusive information which does exist.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , 1989 , pp. 17 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1989

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References

1. The vertical files at the American Craft Council and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York were especially helpful. ACC keeps files by artists with slides, résumés, as well as published materials about the artists. Because the artists are responsible for sending in updated information, however, the currency of the artists’ files varies tremendously. FIT provides general subject access under “Art and Fashion”, with clippings that range widely in content including art’s influence on fashion designers, wearable art, artists inspired by fashion, and artists marketing wearable works.Google Scholar
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9. A catalogue of Warhol’s large collection of watches is published in The Andy Warhol Collection: Sold for the Benefit of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. New York: Sotheby’s 1988. Volume 3: Jewelry and Watches.Google Scholar
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