Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frank Gehry, Postmodern Architecture, Postmodern Art
8 Nov 2016
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Postmodernism across many contexts context to context: modern art vs. modernism/enlightenment etc. ) Describes a period from the end of modernism (mid to late 1960s) Generally describing the period from the mid-20th century to the present. An enormously contested, yet very popular concept (cid:523)not unlike (cid:494)culture(cid:495)(cid:524) Variously a break or acceleration of (cid:494)modernism(cid:495) (cid:523)which itself varies from. Critiques because there is this idea that (cid:494)nothing means anything anymore, there is no center that we can agree on(cid:495) consciousness, etc. Postmodern art: after ww(cid:884); (cid:498)art about the idea of art(cid:499): performance, Modern art and literature: up to c. 1945; abstract, cubist, stream-of: making paintings that looked like old comic books. Ex. skyscraper: simplicity is better, less is more, buildings should be built primarily for what they are supposed to be used for, rather than looking pretty. One of the most famous postmodernist architects. A lot of the art within it is less exciting than the building itself.
