Postmodern artists

that began in the 1970’s with the premiere of Alvin Lucier’s Music for Solo Performer. By examining both historical examples and modern incarnations of this technique, one can begin to chart the aesthetics of such works and their place within a postmodern music scene. Specific questions to be addressed include: the use of sonification techniques…

Cultural Frame In 1917, the wealthy male French artist, Marcel Duchamp created the revolutionary masterpiece named Fountain which challenged the meaning of what art is and the necessity of the manual labour required to make art. This masterpiece was influenced by the Dada movement, World War 1 and cubism. The dada movement was a movement which, was launched in 1916 in Zurich, was a direct reaction to the slaughter, propaganda and inanity of World War 1. In 1905, Marcel Duchamp began his…

producer of interesting art. Additionally, the modernist art style of surrealism and it’s “emphasis on creative powers of the unconscious” (Getlein 501) inspired the postmodern art style of abstract expressionism. Finally, I believe evens of the time such as the great depression, the Harlem renaissance, and World War 2 caused artists to turn to their artwork as a means of escape and a form of self-expression in these confusing and frightening times took modernism to…

Looking over the list of art galleries, one uniquely caught my eye; The Elmhurst Art Museum located in Elmhurst IL. Wandering through the museum's website, I stumbled upon an article that stated that David Wallace Haskins, a Chicago-based artist of the Skycube would be making an appearance on Sunday, November 29th. I thought that was interesting, so I decided to check it out. When I arrived, I was greeted by a thin older woman who smiled at me warmly. Right away, she asked me if I was a…

of eight parts that imply a cube. Although LeWitt thinks of the term "minimalism" as condescending to his art, his use of forms pared down to their pure geometric essences links him to the Minimalist movement. LeWitt considers himself a conceptual artist and emphasizes the process of creation, from initial idea to finished work. (Lewitt: Incomplete Open…

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre joins parts of the dialect and iconography of Pop Art with deft Reasonable execution. With a practice that traverses drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and distributing, Ruscha's experience as a visual creator is obvious in his excellent eye for typography and design. He is maybe best known for his craftsman's books, for example, Twentysix Gas Stations (1963)— a pictorial investigation of the fuel stations he experienced on an…

together in combination with a puzzling phrase written on the walls creates an open question to the viewer. The elements used such as chocolate fudge, green peas and male figure comparable to Jesus is placed in the restroom in a messy arrangement. The artist seems to transmit the impression of motionlessness by the lack of movement through the performer seating on the floor which delivers a psychological effect of shock to the spectator. The writing on the walls is an important clue that is…

especially true when it comes to the music industry. Although the industry was no stranger to female music artists, Roberta Flack, Patti LaBelle, and Tina Turner to name a few, female rappers were virtually unheard of until the late 1980’s when a few popped onto the scene. Trailblazing new pathways for younger female artists, Queen Latifa, throughout her twenty-seven years as a prolific artist and entertainer, have portrayed an image of strength, intelligence, and beauty for black women. She…

Politics OF Fear, Equality and Quest of Equal National Labyrinth in Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Thesis statement: Toni Morrison’s fiction probe the quest of ideals of equality misshaped by the dominant "Whiteness" and aspires for ideals like social equality and independent home once distorted by their white masters in U.S. culture that ultimately negated the blacks as beings having life and soul dwelling their identity based upon fear of extinction and slavery. Introduction: Toni Morrison in her…

avant-garde whichhas left its traces in postmodern theatres. This paper tries toinvestigate Brecht’s epic theatre as a modern avant-garde and itsinfluence in postmodern theatre. His epic theatre was in fact a revoltagainst the main stream modern theatre in which Brecht openlydeclares that theatre should be ‘political.’ Brecht’s theatre was soinfluential that his theatre becomes reference to the postmoderntheatre. Key words: epic theatre, Bertolt Brecht, avant-garde, postmodern, propaganda…