HIGH AND LOW: MODERN ART AND POPULAR CULTURE Caricature. Graffiti. Advertising. Comics.

NY: Museum of Modern Art. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. First Edition?. Hardcover. 12.5 X 9.8 X 1.8 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S24.95) DUST JACKET,CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; RED SPINE TITLES WITH LARGE RED EXCLAMATIN MARK ALL ON BLACK CLOTH SPINE,COVER ; 626 ILUST (193 COLOR); 460pg heavy pages; Narrower in scope than its title suggests, this sprawling, visually riveting catalogue of a traveling exhibition traces the "dialogue" between "high" art (Picasso, Miro, Seurat, etc.) and the streetwise or commercial "low" media of graffiti, caricature, comics and advertising. Picasso transformed sly notebook caricatures into the "high" paintings of his primitive/archaic phase. Claes Oldenburg turned a lipstick tube into a colossal, totemic monument. From cubist newspaper collages to Jenny Holzer's electric-message installations, popular culture has served such modern artists as Jeff Koons, .