Generally summed up by being:
- Confusing
- Contradictory
- Notoriously difficult to define
- Possible it doesn't actually exist at all.
- However it is a period that has followed modernism and responds to a post-modern era.
MODERNISM
Experimental
Privileges the new
Individualism
Progress
Purity
Originality
Seriousness
WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD
POST MODERNISM (a response)
Exhaustive
Pluralism
Pessimism
Disillusionment with the idea of absolute knowledge.
WE CANT SAVE THE WORLD, we can only make things worse and hope it saves us.
-People Began to create at which was against the 'idea' of art. Here is a machine that destroys itself, showing how new technology will always be flawed.
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| Homage to New York |
1964- 'Post Culture against elitist few' born
60's- Beginnings
70's- Established as term
80's-90's - Dominant theological discourse
Today- Fired and simmering
-Post-Modernism may also agree with the 'Global Village' theory, meaning everyone is treated as equals, which could also be seen as a modernistic ideal.
-Modernism was designed to save the world, housing 'projects' were built to save the poor from homelessness. By post-modernism it was realised that this didn't work and the projects were knocked down...
-Buildings made from cheap new materials in modernist era start to fall into disrepair so modernism gets a bad name. Moderism seemed to have taken design principals before human needs.
-Post Modernism has the aim of questioning modernism---> form before function can be good design also!
- The Guggenheim is an example of this, a massive building with comparatively little space to allow for beautiful architecture.
-Post Modern rules could allow for influence from all past architecture. Returning to a Neo-classical way of thinking. For example Maitland Library- Cambridge.
-Architects started exploring Complexity and chaos, mixing materials and styles to make something truly different.
-For example a post modern city is Las Vegas. Reflecting architecture and basic values that are exactly opposite to the terms of modernism.
Post-Modern Film looks at the idea of a "Dystopia' a reflection to the modernism ideal of 'Utopia"
- Films like blade runner are set in increasingly dark futures.
- Technology has enslaved people
-Advertising becomes a valid artform. Some claim it is the 'Greatest Artform of the 20th Century'- Mcluhan.
POST-MODERNISM
-Is Critical of Modernism
-Mixture of the highbrow and the populist
-Mixture of the Alien and the accessible
-Mixture of different styles and era's of all aspects of art and design.
-Questions Conventions
-Shift in theory and thought to and investigation into a crisis in confidence.
-Rejection of a total belief in technology
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