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 Practice Architecture: 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

Time frame authenticity Modernism in Practice Film Nuclear Family Time frame authenticity Liner plot Genre based

Breaking of Modernism Thought Modernists… What happened? Believed lives would improve through science and logic Carried over optimistic views of the Victorian Era 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

New Definition of Family Breaking Conventions Family Genre Society New Definition of Family Paris 1899 Musical 21st sensibilities

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 Universal standards Message transmission Authentic self Modernism Postmodernism Universal standards Message transmission Authentic self Linear narrative Homogeneity 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

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