JAV120H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Eric Fischl
1 Apr 2017
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Artists who were seeking to negotiate cultural presence of both us and soviet union in post war europe. For the first time after ww2, they were claiming their status as international style artists being exhibited and more importantly collected by museums, galleries, individuals, painting was back. Post-modernism no longer seeks new-ness originality it draws from wide range of image sources including art history and mass media. The context that produced post modernism, in 1979, margaret thetcher came to power in. Post modernism can be seen as rejection of idea of enlightenment. Rejection of the 18th century philosopher"s ideas of progress. What replaces this is the micro politics groups such as ecologists, feminists, gay acitivists, identity politics, seem preferable to moderific causes of the past. Within post modernism, the signifier has become detached from their referent: existing in free-play" de-realism simulacra".
