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Capitalist realism (Art)

LC control no.sh2013002840
LC classificationN6868.5.C37
Topical headingCapitalist realism (Art)
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Variant(s)Kapitalistischer Realismus (Art)
See alsoArt, Modern--20th century
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Found inWork cat: Leben mit Pop: eine Reproduktion des Kapitalistischen Realismus, 2013: t.p. (Capitalist Realism) p. 11, etc. (Kapitalistischer Realismus; art historical label first used in connection with exhibitions of the works of Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter held in Dusseldorf in 1963; "artist source material of Capitalist Realism is images and texts derived from the mass media"; "German pop art")
Richter, Polke, Lueg & Kuttner, 2004: p. 47, etc. (Kapitalistischer Realismus; Capitalist realism; term invented by Richter, Polke, Lueg and Kuttner, who met at the Dusseldorf Academy and exhibited together in 1963; not a genuine artists group)
Objects as history in twentieth-century German art, c2010: p. 204 (Capitalist Realism)
Wikipedia, Oct. 14, 2013 (Capitalist realism; "has several meanings or uses ... has been used, particularly in Germany, to describe commodity-based art, from Pop Art in the 1950s and 1960s to the commodity art of the 1980s and 1990s")