Postmodern philosophy

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…

Moreover, while Bloom endorses the linearity of influence, and Borges highlights its fluidity, a third distinct perception emerges. Thompson (2014, p.114) utilises David Foster Wallace’s short story B.I. #59 as a framework from which to interrogate Bloom and Borges’ arguments, detecting, “throughout [Wallace’s] fiction, influence comes not only from the past (as in Bloom’s model), or from a future, anticipated text (as in Borges’s model) but also from the cultural present.” Consequently,…

This pair of artworks applies entirely different medias; however, both aim to achieve a sense of Scottish national identity. In Leviathan Elegy, there are three dimensional works combined together to construct an almost museum-like display in a manner of natural history exhibit, which can be seen in the labeling of the sculptural forms with single letter A from letter G in the top panel. These labels resemble that of the natural history museums that are used to define orthodox narrative or…

Modern and Contemporary Conceptual Art “I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.” Marcel Duchamp. As I personally have never been one to make conceptual art work with ease; I have decided to explore the conceptual. My exploration starts with Marcel Duchamp. It is said that Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades changed the way we think about art. Duchamp argued that aesthetics and skill were not what made art, it was the artists idea that mattered. This idea is where the ready-mades…

Iteration on Stanley Street 1/52-54 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 2010 A relatively small gallery in the middle of Stanley Street brings together three artist displaying their artworks that vary in scale, medium, and character. The gallery standings in the heart of Sydney’s Darlinghurst art precinct, the exciting energetic gallery displays works of mostly Australian Artists. Showcases the works of established and emerging artists. The space is a multi-disciplinary…

becomes history. At this point, modern art is considered to be works created in the period from the 1970s to the present day. 1970 is a turning point in the history of art for two reasons. First of all, it is the year of the appearance of the terms "postmodern" and "postmodernism." Secondly, 1970 is the last milestone to which artistic movements were relatively easy to classify. If we compare the number of creative trends in the period before 1970 and after, it is easy to see that in the time of…

The changes that have occurred in these categories in the past 23 years demonstrate how ephemeral can be the tags that can differentiate the various 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…

Abdullah Alhassan November 18, 2014 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…

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. Each artist in each of the era’s have their own personal style and remarkable design. Artist strive for a unique style, this is which most do achieve by taking daily items and creating an extraordinary design. I do believe that modern art is consider art due to the unique way they interpret everyday objects into…

Entropy and Meaning in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 In modernity, the narrative of scientific progress operates under the assumption of order and linear progress. But with the rise of postmodern theory, these assumptions begin to be called into question to provoke new scientific discourses based on indeterminacies and discontinuities. The Crying of Lot 49 poses the same questions of the possibility of scientific knowledge and the search for intrinsic meaning. Pynchon follows the…