Rosenquist, Still Life, Jingles

Studio 360 | Jan 11, 2011

Kurt Andersen and his guest, legendary adman George Lois, talk about the fertile and contentious relationship between art and advertising. We’ll hear from James Rosenquist, the Pop artist best known for epic, billboard-sized montages of consumer goods. We’ll find out why and how advertising jingles were so manipulative and successful for so long. High-end consumer catalogs are stealing the aesthetics of old Dutch still lifes. And Kurt Andersen reveals his theory as to why so many movie and TV characters work in advertising.

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