Postmodern art

Foster Wallace, a writer who often criticized postmodernism and talked about the movement he thought would follow, post-postmodernism or New Sincerity, which would then influence the way the film on his life would be made. I will use the postmodern and post-postmodern lens to look at life of David Foster Wallace in relation to my lens, the film 's structure, and the main…

Reading Response Paper In the article, “The Trouble with (The Term) Art” by Carolyn Dean, a claim is made that the term art is inaccurately used to denote objects, specifically from cultures that predate western art. Dean uses specific examples such as Ancient American stone carving to get her point across. She goes into detail in how the term “art” often turns an object unintended for artistic purposes, into an object of “art by appropriation.”(p. 26) The term was made by Western cultures…

aspects of digital art. The continuing trend towards innovation has hampered to some extent a reflection of the whole and has raised the question of whether technology may be getting art into a "black hole." Stewart Brand criticized in an article for WIRED magazine, 17 years ago, the speed with which the artists got recognition and lack of robustness of art based on the continuous search for the new: “How to get any kind of a culture aesthetics, foundation or continuity of works of art with…

Rough Draft: Is Digital Photography Considered Art? Art is defined as, “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings”, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/art). When art is a subject that is argued about, imagination and inspiration must be considered. “At what point does something become art?” is a question asked in a book called, What is Art? - 27 Questions 27 Answers (Bringezu,…

mainly impacted the arts such as music, architecture and literature. Postmodernism arose hugely due to the events in America at the time and the failures of Modernism. Because of this, many postmodernists have a very skeptical look into elements of their society. To properly analyze Vonnegut’s unique writing style and literary choices, one must first take a look some of the basic elements of a postmodern novel of which Vonnegut’s style for this book is based on. The postmodern style can be very…

Its principles - conceptual, irony, parody, secondary, impersonality, citationality. Liotar (born in 1924.), Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980), U. Eko (., Born in 1932) is considered any work of art as a specific text, built and evolving beyond the laws of the genre, and song, and representing a collage of statements, quotations, allusions and metaphors. Reviving romantic irony principle, proponents of postmodernism erect it into an absolute,…

Don DeLillo’s White Noise, is a quintessential postmodern novel. DeLillo’s novel focuses on a society that has become hyperreal. The real no longer exists in White Noise, it has just become an image that no longer has a true reality. Many of the themes are ones of images becoming something else entirely. Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson theories relate to DeLillo’s postmodern consumer society and how signs create a hyperreality. Baudrillard’s post-humanist theory of the simulacra is showing…

The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations. Boston, London, Butterworth Heinemann, October 2000. Postmodernism. Web. 19 Nov 2013. <http://postmodernblog.tumblr.com/post/106532710/a-list-of-postmodern-characteristics>. Keep, C., T. McLauglin, and R. Parmar. N.p.. Web. 21 Nov 2013. <http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0242.html>. Klages, Mary. N.p.. Web. 21 Nov 2013.…

The form of artwork is a photographic silkscreen on vinyl. The size of the work is 112 x 112 inches or (284.48 x 284.48 cm), a perfectly square framed piece. The general composition of the artwork includes a closeup shot of a young woman 's profile (with a very neutral emotion) from the chin up, in front of a plain, bare background. The axis of this piece is vertical, since all lines in the framework go straight up and down. In regards to elements in this artwork, there are several forms. There…

[1] The year is 1976 and the world of art was reaching a point of stagnation. After a wave of postmodern art, the two art forms that had prevailed were conceptualism and minimalism. Art historian Jordana Saggese describes this era and notes that conceptualism focused on planning and placed little emphasis on the execution and minimalism produced art with minimal design put behind the work’s actual appearance (67). In a time where these ideals were king, many contemporary artists accepted the…