Saturday, 7 March 2015

MODERN/POSTMODERN

The the notes I took in lectures and decided to post so they would be easy to locate when I need them.

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MODERNISM

The second half of the 19 century - 20 century.

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claims of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces. Georg Simmel

Artist: L.S. Lowry, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro,Edouard Manet.

Kitsh became more and more popular. Kitsch is a product of the industrial revolution which urbanized the masses of Western Europe and America. 



POST-MODERNISM

20 century art movement which criticise modernism.

Richard Hamilton Just what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing?, 1956 

We no longer have recourse to grand narratives – we can resort neither to the dialectic of the Spirit nor even to the emancipation of humanity as a validation for post-modern scientific discourse. 
But the little narrative remains the quintessential form of imaginative invention, most particularly in science.

A generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyper real.
Hyper reality - the state where distinctions between objects and their representations are dissolved and one is left with only simulacrum.

Zygmunt Bauman, Intimations of Post modernity, 1992
Frederic Jameson, Post modernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 1984

Artists: Vincent Van Gogh,Andy Warhol,Edvard Munch,Marilyn Diptych,Cindy Sherman. 



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