Thursday, 20 January 2011

Post Modernism

No more innovation and originality things often get

repeated

recycled

quoted


Postmodernism - characterised by:

exhaustion

pluralism

pessemism


uses for the term postmodernism

after modernism


the historical era following the modern


contra modernism


equivalent to 'late capitalism' (Jameson)


artistic and stylistic eclecticism


'global village' phenomena - culture, products together


'15 July 1992, 3:32pm - modernism dies, according to Charles Jencks



Modernism. The idea that technology is improving the world celebrating it

Postmodernism. Rejecting it - questions everything

Park Hill in Sheffield  - prime example of modernist international architecture thats failed

AT+T building






J. F. Lyotard


"the postmodern condition can be summarised as a total belief system - where you come from where your going to"


totalising belief system - "metanarratives"


Bricolage

Robert Venturi (quote on sheet)


Andy Warhol - nihilistic attack on the role of the artist - art that attacks arts meaning - rejection of the values of art

1984 - a new depthlessness - waning of affect
Marshall Mcluhan "advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century"



Post Martisits and Graphic Designers

Memphis group

Jenny Holzer - abuse of power 1983

Adbusters - design anarchy issue 2001

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