Twitch Pop ; Video Games Build Complete Worlds to Take Their Place in Pop-Art Canon
The Washington Times › May 29, 2009
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Are video games art? Or are they preordained to be little more than mindless entertainment?
While a few almost certainly will achieve the former and many more will be the latter, a handful of recent games suggest that the best answer is somewhere in between.See the full content of this document
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Twitch Pop ; Video Games Build Complete Worlds to Take Their Place in Pop-Art Canon
From the 1970s onward, the world of video games has produced an increasing number of cultural touchstones. "Tetris," "Pong" and "Super Mario Bros." blossomed from primitive pixelated animations into celebrated pop icons, as widely recognized as the...
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