modernism Flashcards
: What is Modernism?
A cultural and artistic movement that emerged in the 1850s and lasted until the 1960s-1980s, characterized by a search for truth, grand narratives, and a focus on the artist as the authoritative meaning-maker.
What are the key features of Modernism?
Singular truth, grand narrative, authority systems, serious attitude, linear progression of time, binary opposites, distinction between high and low art, and symbols with fixed meanings.
What is Postmodernism?
Back: A cultural, philosophical, and artistic movement that emerged in the 1970s, characterized by a rejection of certainties, multiple truths, and a focus on the audience as co-creators of meaning.
What are the key features of Postmodernism?
Rejection of grand narratives, multiple truths, eclectic and diverse, open to interpretation, no single truth or authority, and a focus on the audience as co-creators of meaning.
What is the difference between Modernist and Postmodernist attitudes?
Modernist: author is authoritative meaning-maker, fragmentation is tragic, serious intention. Postmodernist: death of the author, audience co-creators of meaning, celebrates chaos, playfulness, and irony.
What is the Postmodern condition?
A world characterized by multiple truths, contestation, negotiation, and debate, where individuals have a responsibility to accept the choices they make and be accountable for them.
What is Postmodern style?
Characterized by the disappearance of divisions between genres and disciplines, celebration of fragmentation, use of diverse styles and genres, recycling and repurposing of popular culture and media, and an anti-genre approach.
What are some key Postmodern features and characteristics?
: Rejection of grand/master narratives and absolute truths, deconstruction, pastiche, popular culture, multiplicity, death of the author, meta-theatre and meta-text, and multimedia.
What is deconstruction in Postmodernism?
The process of taking apart and putting back together existing ways of seeing the world, subverting and interrogating dominant narratives and truths.
What is pastiche in Postmodernism?
A technique of layering texts, ideas, images, and mini-narratives to create a new work that challenges dominant narratives and truths.
