Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture

by Julian Stallabrass

'Stallabrass is not an anti-popularist, but a critic of the way the cultural studies industry has driven the study of mass culture into a banal relativism.' John Robert, Variant

Genres: Art

280 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1996

About the author

Julian Stallabrass is an English art historian, photographer and curator. He was educated at Leighton Park School and New College, Oxford University where he studied PPE. A Marxist, he has written extensively on contemporary art (including internet art), photography and the history of twentieth century British art.

Reviews

[Christopher]

tough to talk about graffiti as a commodity but the branding analog makes sense;

I recognize a lot more of the points in this in the media around me: trash, virtual reality, etc than I expected to;