Postmodern artists

Expressing truth in art was important to early 20th century artist as they were trying to reflect the reality of the world they saw. If the world was thought to be ugly and fractured, artists were not focused on idealizing the world and creating a misrepresentation of it. They focused on creating a more realistic representation of the world exposing the ugliness that they believed…

These movements tease apart the human/nonhuman binary through their use of transhuman figures. This approach fully materializes later in 20th century Postmodern and Posthumanist thinking, with the likes of theorists Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and biologist Julian Huxley, who coined the term “transhumanism” in his essay of the same name. Just as Postmodernist thinking argues for the necessity of…

Dame Muriel Spark (Feb. 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) “an arcane puzzle in the mapping of contemporary literature” (Sawada 11), occupies an important place among the post-war British novelists. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Quite early in her life she decided to adopt writing as a profession and began writing seriously after the war. Spark started her writing career with poetry and literary criticism, under her married name.…

create their own art, advancing art to a whole new level. Nam June Paik was a Korean artist who created the video art TV Buddha. In this setup,…

From classic ballet to modern dance, there was a conversion of bodily energy into a mental state, which means that modern dance began to express ideas through idealizing women’s bodies. In the late 19th century, Loie Fuller (1862-1928) was a pioneering woman of modern dance as she applied the idea of a feminist aesthetics to fuel her movements by emphasizing costumes and visual effects. More specifically, she devised a type of dance that focused on the shifting play of lights and colors on the…

Introduction: On April 23, 2016, the visual album Lemonade was released as an hour long special on HBO. For that hour, the world sat transfixed as they saw a film that was quite unlike anything they had come to expect from the artist, Beyonce. Many people struggled to characterize the fim in modern terms. Some pointed to the iconography in the film such as the many signifiers of the struggles of the black community. While others focused on the archetype of the film. An argument was made for the…

inspiration/influence is a particularly tricky situation, because as artists we feel this overarching desire—nay, need—to leave a permanent and unique stain on the world. If that stain resembles too closely one that came before it, then where is the ingenuity in that? This being the case, it is impossible to make anything of merit without being at least subconsciously influenced. Only upon realizing this fact and embracing it is an artist able to fully and successfully utilize the arts as an…

started questioning the objectiveness of modern history and artist began exploring ideas outside of the classical form. This ‘postmodernism’ is evident in the world of theatre because playwrights began to explore working class themes and the development of an anti-hero arose. This working class anti-hero reflected the public desire to confront the oppressive nature in history, tradition and convention. Many playwrights would explore the postmodern theatre,…

Postmodern artists such as Duchamp, with his installation of signed pot (Fountain) caused chaos and confusion in the artistic circles as they blatantly challenged the notions of painting and aesthetics. He talks of how we cant ascribe a fixed meaning to what beauty…

The main goal of the ecocentric Deep Ecology ecological movement is to end the dominantion and power relationships modern humans have over nonhuman Nature, and to set up realistic biological conditions under which the wild species and biodiversity of the earth can exist and flourish. The deep ecological approach to contesting Earth’s future is to distinguish between the vital and the nonvital needs of humans. The vital needs of nonhumans get priority before the non vital needs of humans. Deep…