The speed of our lives increases in proportion. We supplement the experience we could have had (or previously would have had) with efficiency. And this benefits us in other ways. Benjamin Franklin also contributes greatly in his writings to the conversation of consumption in relation to art in his essay ‘Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’. One artist who cannot be avoided in the evaluation of mass consumption in art is Andy Warhol. Warhol blurred the boundaries between art and consumer culture and in doing so started the ball rolling on a hugely significant artistic and social discourse. By propelling the everyday, consumer product and objects of popular culture into the world of art through repetition, he makes a statement about our collective, habitual consumption. He recognised that largely our perceptions and cultural behaviour depend upon our consumption of mass media. His work seemed to force feed us imagery; turning our celebrities into mundane symbols and our mundane products into
The speed of our lives increases in proportion. We supplement the experience we could have had (or previously would have had) with efficiency. And this benefits us in other ways. Benjamin Franklin also contributes greatly in his writings to the conversation of consumption in relation to art in his essay ‘Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’. One artist who cannot be avoided in the evaluation of mass consumption in art is Andy Warhol. Warhol blurred the boundaries between art and consumer culture and in doing so started the ball rolling on a hugely significant artistic and social discourse. By propelling the everyday, consumer product and objects of popular culture into the world of art through repetition, he makes a statement about our collective, habitual consumption. He recognised that largely our perceptions and cultural behaviour depend upon our consumption of mass media. His work seemed to force feed us imagery; turning our celebrities into mundane symbols and our mundane products into