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 PracticeArchitecture:

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

Modernism in Practice

Film

Time frame authenticity

Nuclear Family

Liner plot

Genre based

Breaking of Modernism Thought

Modernists…

• Believed lives would improve through science and logic

• Carried over optimistic views of the Victorian Era

What happened?

• 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

Breaking Conventions

Family

• Society

Genre

Paris 1899Musical

21st sensibilities

New Definition of Family

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

Modernism

• Universal standards• Message transmission• Authentic self• Linear narrative• Homogeneity

Postmodernism

• 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

Works Cited• Quintus. “Introduction to Postmodernism.” 12 Sep 2010. 24

Jan 2013 <http://www.slideshare.net/quintus/introduction-to-post-modernism>.

• Moore, Andrew. “Postmodernism Unpacked.” 7 Nov 2008. St. Stithians College. 24 Jan 2013 <http://www.slideshare.net/andryn2006/postmodern-unpacked-presentation>.

• Matvei, Tanya. “Postmodernism Feature.” 8 Dec 2010. 24 Jan 2013 <http://www.slideshare.net/niusa18/postmodernism-features>.

• Wood, Andrew. Dr. “Modernism and Postmodernism” San Jose University 24 Jan 2013 <http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/105/105syllabus3a.html>.