Art and Pop Culture Works of art deemed to be ‘high art’ have been highly perpetuated throughout history, however over the past generation, ‘high art’ has been seen to dissolve into ‘popular culture’. According to philosopher David Novitz (1945), this divide has never been present within works of art, as it was the audiences that determined they were different.1 This collapse of ‘high art’ into popular culture has occurred because of the effects neo-liberalism has had on the