Post Modernism

Question 1

What is Postmodernism?

Answer 1

• Restoration of flare
• Realising that art aren’t actually at the peak
• Refinement of modernism
• incredulity toward meta-narratives

Question 2

When, postmodernism?

What historical conditions contributed?

Answer 2

• Summer of Love (cultural shift)
• Vietnam (technology of the war- daily news coverage on TV with images- diff face of war than every before.)
• Civil Rights Movement

Question 3

Assassinations in PM

Answer 3

• Malcom X
• RObert Kennedy
• JFK
• MLK Jr

Question 4

Cultural shift

in music?

Answer 4

shift in pop music - Marvin Gay- talks about racism, the war, environmental degradation

Question 5

Other things that happens

Answer 5

(anything that basically showed that the world isn’t perfect)

• 1968 the Democratic Convention- subsequent police riots in Chicago
• LBJ announces he doesn’t want to run fro prez again
• 1968: year of internastion student protest (Mexico, Paris)
• Riots in Detroit and after MLK assassination

Question 6

Compare and contrast with modernism timing

Answer 6

Timing-

Modernism - starting in the 19th century - 1960’s used minimalist designs consisting of line, and colors to try to make the most aesthetically appealing art

Postmodernism - beginning after modernism in the 1960’s it consists of using designs from the modernist era but adding a critique or an observance of the outside word

Question 7

Compare and contrast with modernism in art

Answer 7

No connection to the events of the world (Picasso and Berger)
 No illusion, of depth, light, shape
Just shapes and lines, nothing else
Not much variation for art styles
Optimistic/Utopian view of the world

“Skepticism towards metanarratives”
Criticize/Challenge the world
Various art styles
Modern art with flair (Jinks pg 515)

Question 8

what is the business about meta-narratives?

Answer 8

It’s a narrative of a narrative

Question 9

Jean-François Lyotard

Answer 9

French 1924-1998
“Simplifying to the extreme I define post-m incredulity towards meta-narratives”
-moving toward the emancipation of the human race

Question 10

incredulity

Answer 10

disbelief, skeptical

Question 11

Narrative

Answer 11

Story

Question 12

Meta

Answer 12

Over arching- big

Question 13

Example of big story

Answer 13

religious, communism

Question 14

Does P-M describe an era, a mood, a sensibility, a style [all those things in different ways….]

Answer 14

It kind of takes modernism and critiques it.

Question 15

What does Jencks mean about double coding?

Answer 15

Pg 578: culture is influenced by both the past and the future

Question 16

Is postmodernism anti-modernism?

Answer 16

No.

It’s modernism but with flair, (critique)

Question 17

What does Hassan mean by de-canonization?

Answer 17

We take the values of society and destroy them, change them.

Question 18

Mary Devereaux, Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers and the Gendered Spectator (what is male gaze?)

Answer 18

Pg 589
How men view art/ other things
Eroticism of women
Men take pleasure in women

Question 19

Semiotics

Answer 19

The science of sign usage, with the understanding that ‘sign’ includes not just words but also symbols.

Question 20

Deconstruction

Answer 20

breaking it down to make it easier to understand

Question 21

Hermeneutics

Answer 21

The study of human interpretation and/or understanding.
Experience art as a conversation. Be aware and sensitive to the historical context. Experience of art leaves of differ than we were e before.
Emilio betti helped develop this