FIST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Liminality
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Modernism: challenged conventions of traditional art new ways of making and perceiving art postmodernism: another shift in the attitudes about art"s methods and powers. 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. Dominent tendencies parodic borrowing empty citation taking together of disparate styles blurring of the lines between high and low culture emphasis on the temporariness or liminality of places and feelings. Super ciality and enjoyment: surrendering to the nihilistic thrill of knowing we have nothing left. It is not simply that we live in a world increasingly dominated by images and signs, but that these have become our primary reality.
