POP ART AND FASHION INTERACTION

A Comparative S‌tudy on Pop, Elite and Folk Art

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

Evolving Pop Art Using Scalable Vector Graphics

In this paper we present our findings of our continued investigation into the use of Scalable Vector Graphics as a genotype representation in evolutionary art. In previous work we investigated the feasibility of SVG as a genetic representation for evolutionary art, and found that the representation was very flexible, but that the potential visual output was somewhat limited by the simplicity of...

Fashion Thinking: Fashion Practices and Sustainable Interaction Design

Broadly defined, “fashion” refers to the symbolic, aesthetic, and cultural meanings that objects carry, especially the ways in which people use objects to express their taste, lifestyle, social status and belonging to a community. We don’t ordinarily think of fashion as a positive force for sustainable practices in the design of products and services. One imagines that fashion drives consumptio...

Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism

The Fleeting Art: Fashion and Culture in Eighteenth Century France

Dress is the most fleeting of the arts, a prey to the arbitrary dictates of novelty and the attacks of critics, subject to endless speculation – and quite meaningless out of historical context. It is, on the other hand, the only art that relates so closely to the narrative of our lives, both as individuals and in relation to the wider world; for clothing is simultaneously intensely personal (a ...