Andy Warhol/Pop Art

Pop Art

 By Tilman Osterwold

Published by Taschen, 2003

ISBN 3822820709, 9783822820704

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p.167

"Warhol not only wanted to turn the trivial and commonplace into art, but also to make art itself trivial and commonplace. He not only transforms mass produce objects and information from the mass media into art, but turns his own art into mass produce objects. Whatever is lowest comes out on top in Warhol's work, and vice versa: he knocks elitist "high" art off its pedestal and drags it doen into the slough of everyday life; sub-cultural phenomena, on the other hand, became socially acceptable."

Psychological Research

"On Desire: Why we want what we want" by William Braxton Irvine

Oxford University Press US, 2006

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p.105

"Suppose we can avoid miswanting. Suppose we can teach ourselves to want only those things that, when we get them, we will like having. Even then our insatiability will not be cured. This is because of the psychological phenomenon known as adaptation: we tend to get used to what we have and therefore like it less with the passage of time. We grow indifferent to the spouse, home, or car that was once our pride and joy, and because we are no longer satisfied with what we have, we form new desires in the belief that satisfying them - unlike when we satisfied our previous desires - will lead to lasting happiness.

These two psychological phenomena, miswanting and adaptation, lie at the heart of human insatiability"

Obama poster

By Shepard Fairey, similar style to the che guevara and black panther posters from the 60's and 7o's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey