ONE: Define Post-Modernism using 8-10 bullet points that include short quotes.
-'The term Post modernism is used in a confusing variety of ways. For some it means anti-modern; for others it means revision of modernist premises'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
-'Deconstructive postmodernism seeks to over come the modern world view, and the assumptions that sustain it, though what appears to be an anti world view. It "deconstructs' the ideas and values of modernism to reveal what composes them and shows that such modernist ideas such as "equality" and "liberty" are not "natural" to humankind or "true" to human nature but are ideals, intellectual constructions.'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
-'Modernist culture is Western in its orientation, capitalist in its determining economic tendency, bourgeois in its class character, white in its racial complexion, and masculine in its dominant gender'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
-'Was a movement in architecture that rejected the modernist, avant garde, passion for the new.'
(James Morley)
-'Constructive postmodernism desires a return to premodern notions of divinely wrought reality, of comic meaning, and an enchanted nature. It also wishes to include an acceptance of non sensory perception.'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
-'The postmodern is deliberately elusive as a concept, avoiding as much as possible the modernist desire to classify and thereby delimit, bound and confine. Postmodernism partakes of uncertainly, insecurity, doubt, and accepts ambiguity.'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
-'Modernism seeks closure in form and is concerned with conclusions, postmodernism is open unbounded and concerned with process and "becoming"'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
-'Constructive postmodernism seeks to recover truths and values form various forms of premodern thought and practice'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
TWO: Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Postmodern artist. (page 24)
'The post-modern artist is "reflexive" in the he/she is self-aware and consciously involved in a process of thinking about him/herself and society in a deconstructive manner, "de masking" pretensions, becoming aware of his/her cultural self in history, and accelerating the process of self-consciousness'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
THREE: Use the table on pages 47-48 in your ALVC handbook to summarize the list of the features of Post-Modernity.
Social and cultural pluralism, visual media becoming undifferentiated equivalent forms, dominance of high culture by popular culture,
FOUR: Research Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty urn with Coco-Cola logo (1994) in order to say what features of the work could be considered Post Modern.
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social political and cultural criticism. In this artwork he has used a old chinese urn, which holds great historical meaning and he has branded it using the Coca-Cola Logo. While researching the artwork i came across an interview and Ai Weiwei tells us why he chose to do this. 'If we look at history, nothing can give us more vivid a lesson that those pieces of evidence. You can talk about Greek or Roman civilization, or India or China or whatever. The image is still the most powerful. If we think about the United States, we think about Coca-Cola or McDonald's. And those things are so strong and so clear that we almost don't need another explanation. I suppose that's why art projects are needed - to reveal how history and reduced everything into such a nonsense image' There is a shock factor to this piece, the mix of the high culture and popular culture. By using an urn with so much history and respect, and placing a Coca-Cola logo which would not be as highly regarded as the urn allows this piece to be considered a postmodern artwork.
'It symbolizes, heritage, appropriation, globalization, the shock that the brand is more recognizable than the object and the uneasy but increasingly important collision of eastern and western traditions. Ironically the urn was an incredibly valuable artifact and yet became more valuable after it became a piece of postmodern art' -Tim Marshall
http://timmarshall20.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/postmodernism-style-and-subversion-1970-1990-at-the-v-a-20th-century-toys-boys-and-girls/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=articolo_det&id_art=671&det=ok&title=AI-WEIWEI -interview
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-685801.html
-'Was a movement in architecture that rejected the modernist, avant garde, passion for the new.'
(James Morley)
-'Constructive postmodernism desires a return to premodern notions of divinely wrought reality, of comic meaning, and an enchanted nature. It also wishes to include an acceptance of non sensory perception.'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
-'The postmodern is deliberately elusive as a concept, avoiding as much as possible the modernist desire to classify and thereby delimit, bound and confine. Postmodernism partakes of uncertainly, insecurity, doubt, and accepts ambiguity.'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
-'Modernism seeks closure in form and is concerned with conclusions, postmodernism is open unbounded and concerned with process and "becoming"'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
-'Constructive postmodernism seeks to recover truths and values form various forms of premodern thought and practice'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
TWO: Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Postmodern artist. (page 24)
'The post-modern artist is "reflexive" in the he/she is self-aware and consciously involved in a process of thinking about him/herself and society in a deconstructive manner, "de masking" pretensions, becoming aware of his/her cultural self in history, and accelerating the process of self-consciousness'
(Witcombe, C (2000))
THREE: Use the table on pages 47-48 in your ALVC handbook to summarize the list of the features of Post-Modernity.
Social and cultural pluralism, visual media becoming undifferentiated equivalent forms, dominance of high culture by popular culture,
FOUR: Research Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty urn with Coco-Cola logo (1994) in order to say what features of the work could be considered Post Modern.
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social political and cultural criticism. In this artwork he has used a old chinese urn, which holds great historical meaning and he has branded it using the Coca-Cola Logo. While researching the artwork i came across an interview and Ai Weiwei tells us why he chose to do this. 'If we look at history, nothing can give us more vivid a lesson that those pieces of evidence. You can talk about Greek or Roman civilization, or India or China or whatever. The image is still the most powerful. If we think about the United States, we think about Coca-Cola or McDonald's. And those things are so strong and so clear that we almost don't need another explanation. I suppose that's why art projects are needed - to reveal how history and reduced everything into such a nonsense image' There is a shock factor to this piece, the mix of the high culture and popular culture. By using an urn with so much history and respect, and placing a Coca-Cola logo which would not be as highly regarded as the urn allows this piece to be considered a postmodern artwork.
'It symbolizes, heritage, appropriation, globalization, the shock that the brand is more recognizable than the object and the uneasy but increasingly important collision of eastern and western traditions. Ironically the urn was an incredibly valuable artifact and yet became more valuable after it became a piece of postmodern art' -Tim Marshall
SIX: 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.
Banksy is a very well known Street artist who uses stencils to create his work. In this work "flower riot' he has used flowers, which are associated with peace, as the object to be thrown in a riot. This is ironic as a riot is usually such a violent event and the flowers contradicting that, instead of the violet act he is using the symbols of the flowers to promote peace. This piece holds huge value and is well known. This can be associated with Postmodernism as it is on a wall but still holds huge value.
This second image, 'Los Angeles' a picture of a caveman holding a tray of a typical fast food meal, fires, a drink, and a burger. This is similar to Ai Weiwei's work, a mixture of history and now. He has taken a caveman from history and placed him in modern age. Mixing high culture with popular culture. Like most of Banksy's work this also is very ironic and comical.
http://timmarshall20.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/postmodernism-style-and-subversion-1970-1990-at-the-v-a-20th-century-toys-boys-and-girls/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=articolo_det&id_art=671&det=ok&title=AI-WEIWEI -interview
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-685801.html
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