1. modernism and post-modernism
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PREMODERNISM
MODERNISM
POSTMODERNISM
The End of the 20th Century, 1982-3
Joseph Beuys [German Conceptual Artist, 1921-1986]
Hans Hofmann [German/American Abstract Expressionist, 1880-1966]
CONTEMPORARY ARTFrom 1960 to Now
1. Premodernism: Original meaning is possessed by authority (for example, the Catholic Church). The individual is dominated by tradition.
2. Modernism: The enlightenment-humanist rejection of tradition and authority in favour of reason and natural science. This is founded upon the assumption of the autonomous individual as the sole source of meaning and truth--the Cartesian cogito. Progress and novelty are valorized within a linear conception of history--a history of a "real" world that becomes increasingly real or objectified.
3. Postmodernism: A rejection of the sovereign autonomous individual with an emphasis upon anarchic collective, anonymous experience. Collage, diversity, the mystically unrepresentable, Dionysian passion are the foci of attention. Most importantly we see the dissolution of distinctions, the merging of subject and object, self and other. This is a sarcastic playful parody of western modernity and the "John Wayne" individual and a radical, anarchist rejection of all attempts to define, reify or re-present the human subject.
Modernism in the Arts(ca 1860s – 1960s)
Courbet: L'Origine du monde,1866Manet: Au Café, 1878
Klimt: The Kiss, 1907
Henri Matisse
Malevich
Picasso
SalvadorDali
Clement Greenberg1909–1994
Edouard Manet
Robert Motherwell
Frank Stella
Franz Kline
Henry Moore
Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock
Mark Rothko
Willem de Kooning
Helen Frankenthaler
Barnett Newman
Hepworth, Barbara Two Figures, 1954-55
Sarah Lucas, Au Naturel, 1994
MODERN
POSTMODERN
Origins art, architecture, literature, science,
social philosophy art, architecture, film, literature, philosophy
Key Writers Hegel, Marx, Freud, Arnold, Habermas, Dewey, Nietzsche
Lyotard, Jameson, Baudrillard, Rorty, Groux, Aronowitz, Grossberg, Simon, Haraway, Nicholson
Key characteristicsand concepts
- Meta/grand/master narratives of Truth, progress, civilization, universality, and order
- rationality, reason, and objectivity; unity, order, and control a premise of freedom
- essential, unified subject
- knowledge as foundational
- challenge to modernism- focus on difference/Other, multiplicity, and partiality; - no foundation for knowledge- focus on culture and representation within late capitalism, hyper-reality, simulacrum- collapse of hierarchies of culture;- parody, pastiche, irony as dominant forms of cultural commentary- fragmented, contradictory subject
Forms/Types traditional/classical; progressive ludic; resistant; shocking; ironic
MODERNISM POSTMODERNISM
Postmodernism(ca. 1970s – present)
David Hockney
Robert Rauschenberg
Venturi column
Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp: A.P.)Sherrie Levine1991
Graves Astrid Park Plaza, Antwerp
Richter, Gerhard Betty, 1988
Claes Oldenburg’s declaration of 1961: ‘I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical … I am for an art that embroils itself with everyday crap and still comes out on top’.
Claes Oldenburg
Barbara Kruger
The Guerilla Girls
Georg Baselitz Nude Elke 2, 1976
Joerg Immendorff, Cafe Deutschland IV, 1978 Francesco Clemente Atlas, 1982
Enzo Cucchi Painting of the Precious Fires, 1983
Julian Schnabel self portrait, 1987
Tansey, Mark Triumph of the New York School, 1984
Cindy Sherman
Troy Brauntuch
Robert Longo
Sherrie Levine
Trends in Postmodern Art
Barbara Kruger
Richard Hamilton
Art and Mass Culture
Andy Warhol
Trends in Postmodern Art Installation
Tracy Emin, 'My Bed', 1998
Trends in Postmodern Art
Video
Trends in Postmodern Art
Performance Art
Gilbert and George
Josef Beuys
Photography
Trends in Postmodern Art
Jo Spence
MultiCulturalism
Australian Aboriginal ArtEmily Kame Kngwarreye 1910 - 1996
Trends in Postmodern Art
Art And Gender
Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party, 1979
Trends in Postmodern Art
Public Art and Controversy
Richard Serra: Tilted Arc, 1981 (now destroyed)
Trends in Postmodern Art