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POST MODERNISM
A reaction to Modernism
• Experimenting with representations of reality
• Early part of 20th century• Value judgments (good/bad)
• Norms/Stereotypes• People capable of original thought
• Universal truth or meaning
Modernism in PracticeArchitecture:
Simplicity of form & elimination of ornamentation
Art:
Experimenting with representation of people
Good design will
lead to good living
“machine for living”
Form follows function
Modernism in Practice
Film
Time frame authenticity
Nuclear Family
Liner plot
Genre based
Breaking of Modernism Thought
Modernists…
• Believed lives would improve through science and logic
• Carried over optimistic views of the Victorian Era
What happened?
• Science created weapons of mass destruction in WWI
• Pessimism swept across Europe
• Suspicion of science and logic in main events of WWII• Holocaust• Atomic Bombs in Japan
• “Postmodernism questions those grand meta-narratives imagined by modernism.
Perhaps no one person can know "the truth" about anything, if only because no
truth may be experienced directly. According to postmodern authors and
artists, the "presence" of truth is inevitably mediated through a range of filters, most notably fallible language.” - Dr. Andrew
Wood
Subject of Postmodern Texts
• Psychological control of the human mind• Fantastic elements of the real world• Denial of order• Only can truly know oneself• Skepticism of ideas of the modern era, especially…
• Progress• Objectivity• Reason certainty• Personal identity• Grand narratives
Styles of Postmodernism
• Takes pleasure in playing with convention• Points a out nature of how everything is a construction
• Questions previously held truths, structures, forms, and conventions
• Creates new truths from old forms: pastiche• Treats very serious subjects with irony or humor
Postmodernism in Architecture• Playing with idea of conventions & construction
Postmodernism in Art• What is art?
Art is open to many different interpretations
Breaking Conventions
Family
• Society
Genre
Paris 1899Musical
21st sensibilities
New Definition of Family
Hyperreality
World bases its views on what is presented to them through the media
Inability to distinguish reality from simulation of reality
Intertextuality• Acknowledges works
from the past
• Introduces an outside text to comment upon or play with the current text
• Without the original text, the current one would lose its meaning
Comparison
Modernism
• Universal standards• Message transmission• Authentic self• Linear narrative• Homogeneity
Postmodernism
• Partial truths• Discourse• Fragmented self• Hypertext• Heterogeneity
Images Cited• Early modernist art http://fineartamerica.com/art/all/early+modernist/all• Tokoyo parallellt http://www.tokyo.parallellt.se/2011/01/m2.html• Full, colorful, irregular postmodern
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-24102457/stock-photo-fun-colorful-irregular-postmodern-architecture-of-mit-strata-center-in-cambridge-massachusetts.html
• Finding God in Abstract, Absurd, and Postmodern Art http://www.kaleochurch.com/article/finding-god-in-abstract-absurd-and-postmodern-art/
• Postmodernism and pop culture http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/171/171syllabus13chapter7.html• Seagram building http://www.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/FAVORITES/fav_seagram.htm• Art Movements Postmodern art-icio.ru/search.php?id=49519• Advantages of a nuclear family
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/advantages-of-the-traditional-nuclear-family.html• Gay Family Values http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1640411,00.html• Big Data http://www.kpipartners.com/blog/bid/132053/What-is-Big-Data• The Amazing Spiderman poster
http://horrornews.net/60572/the-amazing-spider-man-2012-movie-poster-version-14/• Casablance movie poster http://www.hark.com• Moulin Rouge http://newspaper.li/moulin-rouge/• Modernism http://carlaboschetti.pbworks.com/w/page/11680092/Modernism• Disneyland Resort Vacations http://valetourism.net/2011/10/disneyland-resort-vacation-packages/• Scary Movie Poster http://ifkoifko.blogspot.com/2010/11/intertextuality.html• Intertextuatliy http://ifkoifko.blogspot.com/2010/11/intertextuality.html
Works Cited• Quintus. “Introduction to Postmodernism.” 12 Sep 2010. 24
Jan 2013 <http://www.slideshare.net/quintus/introduction-to-post-modernism>.
• Moore, Andrew. “Postmodernism Unpacked.” 7 Nov 2008. St. Stithians College. 24 Jan 2013 <http://www.slideshare.net/andryn2006/postmodern-unpacked-presentation>.
• Matvei, Tanya. “Postmodernism Feature.” 8 Dec 2010. 24 Jan 2013 <http://www.slideshare.net/niusa18/postmodernism-features>.
• Wood, Andrew. Dr. “Modernism and Postmodernism” San Jose University 24 Jan 2013 <http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/105/105syllabus3a.html>.