Lecture Notes Postmodernism - James.Beighton

Post Modernism

• Modernism 1860 -1960
• Then logically post modernism is 1960s , today some people say we've left post modernism and have entered post - post modernism.
• Modernism is an aspirational reaction to world war 1 technology improves peoples lives.
• Post Modernism a reaction to these rules starts as a critical of the international style. only rule no rules , celebrates what might otherwise be turned kitsch.

• Post Modernism : complexity , chaos , bricolage - mixing up styles and materials. parody. Post aesthetic multiplicity of styles and approaches. Knowing juxtapositions or post modernism questioning old limitations.
• space for marginalised discourse.
• Las vegas- Post modernism city lots of small citys in one quite cheesy! e.g.. Egypt and Disney land.
• Papone V - 1955 - Green Imperative. saying how disney land is better than travelling around europe.
• Philip Johnson New york 1978-84 Sony plaza
• Pompidou center paris 1972-77

Gadgets

• Michael Groves kettle for alessi 1985
• Philippe Starck Juicy Salif - 1990 Orange Squeezer 

These objects say something about the person who would purchase them at such high prices.

Fashion

• Post modernism fashion - 1975 Vivienne Westwood sex boutique kings road London 'PUNK'
• Hussin Chalayn After World - 2006 Response to the civil ward 1988 unveiled chardo

• Andy Warhol Campbells soup can 1962 Pop art , high art pop culture, 'Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes'
• Jeff Koons , dirty Jeff on top 1992 - michael jackson & bubbles 1988
• Michael Craig Martin - Oak tree

Fine Art

• 1933 Damien Hirst Mother & child divided.
• Tracey Emin My bed -1998 & Everyone i have ever slept with.
• Chris Ofili - no woman no cry 1988 , holy virgin mary 1966. Representation Black roots & culture
• Martin Creed - Masking tape cube
• Longlords and bell - the house of Osama Bin Laden.2003

Graphic Design

• David Carson - Ray gun - Legibility - Don't mistake legibility for communication
• 1978 Barbara Kruger - ' i shop therefore i am ' Fine art & Graphic Design,  Selfridges - buy me ill change your life.

• Rachel White Read 1993 - house statement of Britain in the 1990s 
• The KLF band the k foundation - nailed to the wall 1994. ( notions of value)
• Richard Long -  A line made by 1967 , Documented by photography w alking. A smell of sulphur in the wind.

Summary

• Post Modern attitude of questioning conventions esp. modernism
• Post modern aesthetics - Multiplicity of style and approaches.
• Shift in thoughts and theory crits and confidence

Post Modernism is indefinable.