FIST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Superficiality, Liminality
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Postmodernism: acts as a response to modernism, modernism, challenged conventions of traditional art, postmodernism, new way of making and perceiving art, another shift in the attitudes about art"s methods and power modernism"s priorities. Key features of postmodernism: abandons idea of originality, art is an endless web of references, questions of artistic individuality become irrelevant, all that is left is references to other, earlier works. Contradictions: sense of progress or aesthetic development is discarded, poaches from earlier periods, doesn"t recognize categories. Domanint tendencies: parodic borrowing, empty citation, tacking together of disparate styles, blurring of the lines between high and low culture, emphasis on the temporariness or liminality (in-between) of places and feelings. Superficiality and enjoyment: surrendering to the nihilistic thrill of knowing we have nothing left to belive in. Exposing the transparency of narrative: why have a master narrative at all.
