{"product_id":"reading-room-a-journal-of-art-and-culture-issue-2-transcendental-pop-2008","title":"Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture, Issue 2: Transcendental Pop | 2008","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished 2008 by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki\u003cbr\u003e203 pages\u003cbr\u003e176 x 127mm, softcover, with colour illustrations\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Christina Barton, Natasha Conland and Wystan Curnow\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e by Ron Brownson, Rex Butler, Natasha Conland, David Craig, Gavin Hipkins, Lars Bang Larsen, Robert Leonard, Tan Lin, Aram Moshayedi, Daniel Palmer and Morgan Thomas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eDesigned by Inhouse\u003cbr\u003ePrinted by GEON\u003cbr\u003eISSN: 1177-2549\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssue 2 of Reading Room explores a paradox within contemporary art and culture's absorption of Pop. While artists continue to utilise Pop's method, 'Transcendental Pop' identifies a current shift in the infamous fascination with the everyday. Arguably, it is Warhol's defence of surface, flatness and blankness, that has been absorbed and referenced by subsequent generations of artists. These characteristic qualities have become embedded in art's relationship to the everyday - the 'real'. In part, this narrow absorption of Pop's surface has allowed a paradox to occur when artists reinvest surface with 'depth', the unknown and unquantifiable. We invite an exploration of this apparent contradiction, something which has the potential to shift the art \/ life nexus as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51575806755047,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0632\/4017\/5847\/files\/ReadingRoom2cover.jpg?v=1777610634","url":"https:\/\/adam-art-gallery-te-pataka-toi.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-room-a-journal-of-art-and-culture-issue-2-transcendental-pop-2008","provider":"Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}