1. Define Post-Modernism using 8-10 bullet points
that include short quotes.
· What post
modernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence ‘a
defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal
defense.’ -Cathavine Mackinnon
· When used in a
constructive postmodern view, it does not reject modernism but “seeks to revise
the premises of modernism”. Postmodernism attempts to erase all of modernism’s
boundaries, to weaken its legitimacy, and to disturb the logic of the modernist
state. (Witcombe 2000)
· The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes postmodernism as “a set of
critical, strategic and rhetorical practices” which exercises concepts such as
difference, repetition, and hyper-reality to “destabilize other concepts” such
as presence and identity.
· Postmodernism
began as ‘a rejection of the tenets of Modernism’ (Witcombe 2000)
· ‘For some it means
anti-modern; for others it means the revision of modernist premises.’ (Witcombe
2000)
· “Postmodernism is
associated with relativism. Relativism is the idea that ‘anything goes’”,
Saugstad (2001).
· Postmodern
sensibility does not lament the loss of narrative coherence any more than the
loss of being.
Postmodernists also explored the idea that we do not control nature, which has been believed in the past. "Nature does actually precede culture,not the other way around". (Saugstad, A. 2001)
2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.(page 24)
Postmodernists also explored the idea that we do not control nature, which has been believed in the past. "Nature does actually precede culture,not the other way around". (Saugstad, A. 2001)
2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.(page 24)
‘The post – modern artist is ‘reflexive’ in that he
or she is self-aware and consciously involved in a process of thinking about
his or her cultural self in history, in demasking his or her own pretensions,
and promoting processes of self-consciousness’ (witcombe, 2000)
3. Use the table on pages 47 and 48 in your ALVC handbook to summarize the list of the features of Post-Modernity.
3. Use the table on pages 47 and 48 in your ALVC handbook to summarize the list of the features of Post-Modernity.
The table suggest that Post- Modernity has an
unclear bases for social and cultural unity. There was no concern for ‘depth.’
It became culture adapting to simulation. Real- time media, substituting for
the real. Hyper reality and image saturation came into play. There was a
disruption of the dominating high culture by ‘popular’ culture. Art became a
process, it was now performance, production and intertextual art. Art now had
no serious intention and boundaries were broken.
Use this summary to answer the next two questions.
Use this summary to answer the next two questions.
4. Research Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Han
Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994)
in order to say what features of the work could be considered Post-Modern
in order to say what features of the work could be considered Post-Modern
This art done by artist Weiwei falls under
post-modern art because he has mixed a very current brand with a historical urn
and the logo is a very popular and well known icon in our modern society.
This was his way of incorporating pop culture
to this post-modern piece. The artist
has created a contrast between something that is unique to his Chinese culture
and something that is very much a marker of the West. A political
statement is also made and with this work he is pointing out the destruction
and the erosion of Chinese culture, by taking an artefact and
transforming it into something very modern, perhaps the way he sees China
5.
Research British artist Banksy's street art, and analyze the following two
works by the artist
to discuss how each work can be defined as Post-Modern.(Use your list from question 3.)
to discuss how each work can be defined as Post-Modern.(Use your list from question 3.)
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