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    Modernism emphasized rationality, progress, and the autonomous individual. Postmodernism rejects these ideas and instead focuses on difference, multiplicity, and the fragmented nature of knowledge and subjectivity in a late capitalist society. Key postmodern concepts include parody, pastiche, and irony, as well as the dissolution of boundaries between high and low art forms. Postmodern art incorporates influences from mass culture, video, performance art, installation works, and emphasizes issues of gender and multiculturalism.

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    Modernism emphasized rationality, progress, and the autonomous individual. Postmodernism rejects these ideas and instead focuses on difference, multiplicity, and the fragmented nature of knowledge and subjectivity in a late capitalist society. Key postmodern concepts include parody, pastiche, and irony, as well as the dissolution of boundaries between high and low art forms. Postmodern art incorporates influences from mass culture, video, performance art, installation works, and emphasizes issues of gender and multiculturalism.

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    PREMODERNISM POSTMODERNISM

    MODERNISM

    Joseph Beuys [German Conceptual Artist, 1921-1986]


    The End of the 20th Century, 1982-3

    CONTEMPORARY ART
    From 1960 to Now

    Hans Hofmann [German/American Abstract Expressionist, 1880-1966]


    1. Premodernism: Original meaning is possessed by authority (for example, the
    Catholic Church). The individual is dominated by tradition.

    2. Modernism: The enlightenment-humanist rejection of tradition and authority in


    favour of reason and natural science. This is founded upon the assumption of the
    autonomous individual as the sole source of meaning and truth--the Cartesian cogito.
    Progress and novelty are valorized within a linear conception of history--a history of
    a "real" world that becomes increasingly real or objectified.

    3. Postmodernism: A rejection of the sovereign autonomous individual with an


    emphasis upon anarchic collective, anonymous experience. Collage, diversity, the
    mystically unrepresentable, Dionysian passion are the foci of attention. Most
    importantly we see the dissolution of distinctions, the merging of subject and object,
    self and other. This is a sarcastic playful parody of western modernity and the "John
    Wayne" individual and a radical, anarchist rejection of all attempts to define, reify or
    re-present the human subject.
    Modernism in the Arts
    (ca 1860s – 1960s)

    Manet: Au Café, 1878


    Courbet: L'Origine du monde,1866

    Klimt: The Kiss, 1907


    Henri Matisse

    Picasso

    Salvador
    Dali

    Malevich
    Clement Greenberg
    1909–1994

    Robert Motherwell

    Frank Stella
    Henry Moore

    Franz Kline

    Edouard Manet
    Abstract Expressionism

    Helen Frankenthaler

    Mark Rothko

    Willem de Kooning

    Barnett Newman

    Jackson Pollock
    MODERN

    POSTMODERN

    Sarah Lucas, Au Naturel, 1994

    Hepworth, Barbara Two Figures, 1954-55


    MODERNISM POSTMODERNISM

    Origins art, architecture, literature, science, social art, architecture, film, literature,
    philosophy
    philosophy

    Key Writers Hegel, Marx, Freud, Arnold, Habermas, Lyotard, Jameson, Baudrillard, Rorty,
    Dewey, Nietzsche Groux, Aronowitz, Grossberg, Simon,
    Haraway, Nicholson

    Key characteristics - Meta/grand/master narratives of Truth, - challenge to modernism


    and concepts progress, civilization, universality, and - focus on difference/Other, multiplicity,
    order and partiality;
    - rationality, reason, and objectivity; - no foundation for knowledge
    unity, order, and control a premise of - focus on culture and representation
    freedom within late capitalism, hyper-reality,
    - essential, unified subject simulacrum
    - knowledge as foundational - collapse of hierarchies of culture;
    - parody, pastiche, irony as dominant
    forms of cultural commentary
    - fragmented, contradictory subject

    Forms/Types traditional/classical; progressive ludic; resistant; shocking; ironic


    Postmodernism
    (ca. 1970s – present)

    Robert Rauschenberg

    David Hockney
    Graves Astrid Park Plaza, Antwerp

    Venturi column
    Richter, Gerhard Betty, 1988

    Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp: A.P.)


    Sherrie Levine
    1991
    Claes Oldenburg’s declaration of 1961:
    ‘I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical …
    I am for an art that embroils itself with everyday crap and still comes out on top’.

    Claes Oldenburg
    The Guerilla Girls

    Barbara Kruger
    Georg Baselitz
    Nude Elke 2, 1976

    Francesco Clemente
    Atlas, 1982 Joerg Immendorff, Cafe Deutschland IV, 1978

    Enzo Cucchi Painting of the Precious Fires, 1983


    Julian Schnabel self portrait, 1987

    Tansey, Mark Triumph of the New York School, 1984


    Cindy Sherman
    Troy Brauntuch

    Sherrie Levine

    Robert Longo
    Trends in Postmodern Art
    Art and Mass Culture

    Barbara Kruger

    Richard Hamilton

    Andy Warhol
    Trends in Postmodern Art
    Installation

    Tracy Emin, 'My Bed', 1998


    Trends in Postmodern Art
    Video
    Trends in Postmodern Art

    Performance Art

    Gilbert and George

    Josef Beuys
    Trends in Postmodern Art
    Photography

    Jo Spence
    Trends in Postmodern Art

    MultiCulturalism

    Australian Aboriginal Art


    Emily Kame Kngwarreye
    1910 - 1996
    Trends in Postmodern Art

    Art And Gender

    Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party, 1979


    Trends in Postmodern Art

    Public Art and Controversy

    Richard Serra: Tilted Arc, 1981 (now destroyed)

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