Last Class

Question 1

Modernism vs postmodernism

Answer 1

Modernism :
- struggle with big questions
- art must enact change
- extinguishes it self - too ambitious

Postmodernism
-the questions are answered
- all the statement have already been made
-lacks any concrete ambition

Question 2

Postmodernism

Answer 2

• no originality ( ignorant)
  -Art is an endless web of references
  -individuals works are not isolated creations

Question 3

Origins of postmodernist

Answer 3

-Response to mondernist failures

-no progress or asthetic development

-poaches /stealing previous achievement

-no/few categories distinctions

Ex:screen

Question 4

Dominant tendencies

Answer 4

Borrowing other work
-parodic borrowing
-empty citation
-pointless repetition
-tacking together disparate style
—————pastich—————————-
-Blurring lines between high and low and culture
-temporariness or in-between of places and feeling

Question 5

Pastich

Answer 5

Copying

Question 6

Refercing

Answer 6

Just for the sake of refercing - no point

Question 7

A lot of homage

Answer 7

Copy ?

Question 8

Free us from having to only watch things that have meaning and are original

Answer 9

What is wrong with that

Is one belife better then the other

It’s okay to love superficiality

Question 10

What happens to the stories in the postmodernism

Answer 10

Everything is a copy of a copy nothing is real and there is a beauty in superficiality

Question 11

Why have a master narrative at all