VPAB05H3 Lecture Notes - Cindy Sherman, The Public Burning, Populism
12 Jun 2012
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. We have avant garde always moving forward. As you move forward, you meet a wall/blank state. Don"t just turn back to the past and completely imitate that, (there is that in contemporary culture) but in post- modernism, there is an ironic engagement with the past. Turn to the past, and find material you can use to move forward and innovate. Jameson tells us this (more pessimistic view compared to eco) If unlike the avant garde modernist, deals with the past as barbara cartland not wanting to sound like her, but address it and engage it ironically, not pretending to be innocent. In the same artist the modern moment and the postmodern moment can coexist, or alternate, or follow each other closely.
