* Is used in the philosophy, literature, socialsciences and architecture.
* Is associated with relativism. And the idea of the relativism is ''anything goes''.
* Is an intentional departure from modernist approaches that had previously been dominant.
* Post-modernism is composed by two words. Post is ''after'', and the modernism belong to the modern period.
* A grand narrative has left the idea in post-modernism.
* Is used in critical theory to belong the literature, drama, architecture, cinema, journalism, and design, as well as in marketing and business and in the interpretation of law, culture, and religion in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Particularly as an academic movement, can be understood as a reaction to modernism in the Humanities.
* Postmodernism is highly skeptical of explanations which claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person.
* Social constructivism is another idea with in the post-modernism. The main idea is there is no objective knowledge or absolute representation of reality.
2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.
The post modern artist is “reflexive” in that he/ she is self aware and consciously involved in a process of thinking about him/ herself and society in a deconstructive manner, “demasking” pretensions , becoming aware of his/ her culture self in history, and acceleration the process of self-consciousness”
3. Use the grid on pages 42 and 43 to summarize the list of the features of Post-
Modernity.
Modernity.
Since 1980, most of the art has been considered to be Post-Modern. The main focus and content in real and personal, postmodernists subject morality to personal opinion and they define morality as each person’s private code of ethics without the need to follow traditional values and rule. Hyper reality, image saturation are more powerful than original. Postmodernism relies on concrete experience over abstract principles, knowing always that the outcome of one's own experience will necessarily be fallible and relative, rather than certain and universal.
4. Use this summary to answer the next two questions.
5. Research Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994)
in order to say what features of the work are Post-Modern.
Ai Wei Wei, he is one of the China's earliest and most influential avant-garde artists. In the late 1970s, he was a member of "The Stars," a group of largely self-taught artists who challenged official communist icons and ideology and helped spark the modern art movement in Beijing. He has also used this symbol in combination with Chinese traditional ceramics. His ‘Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo’ (1994) is a well-known example. The coca cola sign and the urn are totally different period of object. He combined two object to represent the changing of the period. And in post-modernism is focused on making image saturation more powerful than original and he also created a new art work and broke the traditional views and rules. Ai’s concept differs in that the urn and the logo are not fused together as one seamless object, but can be seen with the logo as an act of violent defacement on the urn, or with the logo as artistic graffiti on the urn of mainstream tradition. The hand of the artist is very much present and emphasized.
6. Research British artist Banksy's street art, and analyze the following two works by the artist to discuss how each work can be defined at Post-Modern.(Use your list from point 6.)
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. His street art combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in distinctive stencil-ling technique. In his work 'Flower Riot', the pose of the man is throwing the flower, the original object should be stone or something else. Another work is Los Angeles (2008), this work is in Valuable Banksy Street Art Stolen From East Los Angeles Wall. We can see the ancient man is holding the plate with the junk food. Both of the works showed strong post-modernism, which without traditional rules and represent really obvious personal idea.
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