Post-Modernism
Bladerunner - Post-modern world where there is a loss of
history and memory
Richard Hamilton Just what is it that makes todays homes so
different so appealing? 1956 Post war Britain looking towards America. Founder
of pop art. Name of painting is advertising slogan
We no longer have recourse to grand narratives (grandes
histoires) – we can resort neither to the dialectic of the Spirit nor even to
the emancipation of humanity as a validation for post-modern scientific
discourse. But the little narrative (petit recit) remains the quintessential
form of imaginative invention most particularly in science. Jean Franciose
Lyotard The postmodern Condition: A report of Knowledge 1979
… A generation by models of a real without a real without
origin or reality: a hyper-real
Jean Baudrillard Simulations 1983
Hyper-reality definition
Dick Hebdige Hiding in the Light 1988
It becomes more and more difficult as the 1980s wear on to
specify exactly what postmodernism is to refer to..
Frederic Jameson Postmodernism of the cultural logic of late
capitalism
The constitutive features of postmodern are: a new
depthlessness.. a whole culture of the image or the simulacrum.. a consequent
weakening of historicity..
Vincent Van Gogh Boots 1887
Worn boots imagine
where they came from
Andy Warhol Diamond Dust Shoes 1980-81 more about fashion
than labour – pictures shop not hard work. Painting doesn’t allow you to
question where shoes came from. No story. No lived context for the shoes
Edvard Munch The Scream, 1893 image of modern anxiety life
was speeding up people didn’t know how to cope with it.
Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe 1962 – Jameson “lack of feeling”
taken over by fame
Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still # 21, 1978 imitating
Marnie 1964 by Alfred Hitchcock
Postmodernism was first looked at in Architecture. Skidmore,
Owings and Merrill, Wells Fargo Court, Los Angeles 1983
Portman, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel 1976 Los Angeles
inside is an illusion doesn’t indicate where you are in the building,
placeless.
Modernist architecture - sense of place. Economy driven by
airlines and trade
In the place of the public – Observations of a public flyer
“I felt like a displaced person wandering and hurrying
taking pictures around the world”
Martha Rosler
Speeding up – how this came to be - Postmodernism
Culture and Representation
National Gallery, British Museum, Design Museum, Tate Modern
– Culture
Culture belongs to everybody and is ordinary Raymond
Williams 1921- 1988 Cultural studies Son of a railway signalman, won scholarship
to Cambridge.
Culture and Society 1958
The long revolution 1961
Culture is
ordinary: that is the first fact. Every human society has its own shape, its
own purposes, its own meanings. Every human society expresses these, in
institutions, and in arts and learning. The making of a society is the finding
of common meanings and directions, and its growth is an active debate and
amendment under the pressures of experience, contact, and discovery, writing
themselves into the land. The growing society is there, yet it is also made and
remade in every individual mind.
Culture club
circa 1981, 1980s Britain became more cultural
Revolution
Kid (Foxy Boy) 2012 Yinka Shonibare MBE
Fabrications
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Diary of a
Victorian Dandy 1998 Yinka Shonibare MBE
The Raje’s
Progress 1733 William Hogarth
Example of
modern day artist looking back at history in art and manipulating it.
Bretton Hall
West Yorkshire
Raymond
Williams The country and the city 1973
“This
extraordinary phase of extension, rebuilding and enlarging…”
Country
houses – slavery at home
Yinka
Shonibare mr and mrs Andrews without their heads
Mr and mrs
joseph Andrews 1750 Thomas Gainsborough – shows wealth, woman sat down sign of
possession. Portrait of ownership.
Jane Austen
– parents are trying to marry off daughters in books
Charlotte
Bronte – girls not married become nannys and maids
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Yinka- French revolution – no heads
Representating his cultural position gun = power
fox = hunter/hunted
Clothes = African inspired
Representation
Representation
is one of the central practices which produce culture. But what does
representation have to do with ‘culture’: what is the connection between them?
To put it simply, culture is about shared meanings, and representation is the
way we make sense of and share meanings. Language is the privileged, but not
the only medium in which we make sense of things.
Word is
concept. Advertisers want their message to be conveyed as quickly and clearly
as possible.
Panzani –
colours, pasta, fresh organic food. Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougères,
Pots, and Cruets on a Table1769 Jean-Siméon Chardin
Nelson’s
Ship in a Bottle 2010 Yinka Shonibare MBE
Fourth
Plinth Trafalgar Square London
Nelson’s
Flagship at the battle of Trafalgar, sails Nigerian pattern cloth inspired by
Indonesian design. Made in Holland sold to Africa. Colonialism. Reflect story
of multi-culturism in London.
Childhood
sense of wonder and amplify it.
Subjectivity
Semiotics- study of signs
Kaja Silverman Subject of semiotics 1984
The interpretation of dreams 1900 Sigmund Freud
The song of love 1914 Giorgio de Chirico – plays on
subconscious surrealism
Subjectivity and signification cannot be isolated from the
cultural system which generates it
Michel Foucault The history of sexuality vol 1 1976 Studied
philosophy, psychology and history
Andre Brouillet Une
Lecon Clinique A la Salpetriere Paris
Freud’s Couch Freud Museum London
Sarah Lucas Invited to put work in freud museum in 2000,
Beyond the pleasure of principle
Please Touch –playing on hysteria patient
Marcel Duchamp Priere de toucher
http://rawwar.org/about
RAW/WAR Project
Lynn Hershmann
Faith Ringgold
howardena pindell
Framing Feminism
Women, Art, and Power and other essays
The oath of the horatii 1784 Jacques-louis David
Male vs Female
Henri Matisse The Painter and his model 1917
Allen Jones 1969
2015
Problem of
representation in art and design
