Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 2

• The Swiss Bank House in Pennsylvania • Trance-Preaching in the United States • The Sleeping Preachers: An Historical Study of the Role of Charisma in Amish Society • A Central Chimney Continental Log House • The German Journalist and the Dunker Love-Feast • Christmas Customs: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 10https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/1034/thumbnail.jp

Architecture and Gender : Lessons from Building Archaeology in Africa

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Collision, Collusion and Coincidence: Pop Art’s Fairground Parallel

This article looks at parallel methods, motivations and modes of consumption between formative British pop art and British fairground art. I focus on two strands, the emergent critical work of the Independent Group and the school of artists based at the Royal College of Art under the nominal leadership of Peter Blake. I use iconographical and iconological methods to compare the content of the art, and then examine how pop art tried to create both a critical and playful distancing from established rules and practices of the artistic canon. I focus on non-institutional cultural groupings and diffuse production and consumption models