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Postmodernism
Are we living through a shift in the way in which the how we see, understand and experience the world?
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An example of postmodern culture
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Is The Simpsons a send-up of the twee American family sitcoms that came before it, or is it a send-up of American life?…and to what is the distinction between representation and ‘real’ life anyway?
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Postmodern culture proposes a world of signifiers without signifieds
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Postmodernism
Are previous dominant paradigms – realism and modernism – no longer adequate explanations or representations of the world?
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Realism
…a commitment to show things as they really are…
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Realism
…set of stylistic, aesthetic and narrative conventions…
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Modernism
…making the world look strange
…making you look again
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
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Modernism
disillusionment with modernism
modernism becomes just another part of the art establishmentit loses its ability to shock
becomes associated with elite tastes
Post
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Postmodernism…a revolt against cultural elitism
challenges the distinction between
‘high’ and ‘low’ culture
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elevate the everyday to the category of art
Andy Warhol, 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
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Peter Blake, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (cover), 1967
Pop Art
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collapse of the distinction between high and low culture
collapse in the grand narratives
politics religion science
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Grand narratives (or metanarratives)according to Jean-Francois Lyotard…
…established universal principles
…lay privileged claims to ‘truth’ and ‘authenticity
…crisis in the status of human knowledge in Western societies
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…crisis in the status of human knowledge in Western societies
Arts and culture
…how do represent and give expression to a world if there is no truth or authenticity?
Politics
…what do ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’, ‘progressive’ mean?
Education
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Jean Baudrillard
...it is no longer possible to separate the cultural from the economic
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images, representations, feelings - are just as likely to be part of economic life at material goods
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…we live in an environment saturated with media images…
Simulacrum
identitical copies without an original
Hyperrealism
substitution of images for the ‘real’ thing
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‘It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology), but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real.’
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‘It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology), but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real.’
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the hyperreal U.S.A.
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Fredric Jameson,
Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 1991
…a culture of pastiche
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qxUqwrNDA
…a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles, to speak through the masks and with the voices of the styles in the imaginary museum.
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Pulp Fiction, Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik-RsDGPI5Y
…the history of aesthetic styles displaces ‘real’ history