VISC-1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gary Numan, Adrian Piper, Blaxploitation
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Today"s focus: what is contemporary , modernism/postmodernism, controversy in context, proliferating voices, closing thoughts. What is contemporary : visc 1004: contemporary art & design, the word contemporary will be under some pressure in that course. Think about what is meant by that concept. The relationship/reliance of postmodernism on the ideas of modernism is kind of contained there in that term. Louis pierson, la comtesse de castiglione et son fils, c. 1864; claude cahun [a. k. a. Sherrie levine, after walker evans: 4,1981; jean-michel basquiat, horn players, Sex pistols, never mind the bollocks, 1977; michael jackson, off the wall, 1979; Silence = death project (avram finkelstein, brian howard, oliver johnston, Charles kreloff, chris li) silence=death, 1987; gran fury, read my lips, 1988; Gran fury, women don"t get aids, 1991: whole sequence of kind of cultural outpourings around the issue of aids. Oliviero toscani, benetton campaign (from a photo by therese frare), 1992;