Postmodernism

Ge Shen Dec 10,2017 ENGL1010 Sara Austin Pink Pop-Surrealism and Image Distortion Pop-surrealism is often viewed as 'lowbrow' art. It utilizes various subcultures, including “classic cartoons, 60's TV sitcoms...rock music, pulp art, soft porn, comic books, sci-fi [and]Japanese anime” (Essak 1), to comment upon or make fun of various socio-political issues or individuals. This art form is often “assigned circa 1994” (Essak 1), which is the year that prominent lowbrow artist Robert Williams…

Arising out of a rebellious mood, the late 19th and early 20th century was a time where many writers broke away from tradition by using modernism to take a radical approach on the way society viewed modern literature (Modernism/literature.com). Experimentation and individualism became virtues, where before they were looked down upon. Modernism was set in motion after a series of cultural shocks. The first of these great shocks was the Great War, known now as World War One. At the time, this “War…

Introduction The twentieth century’s art had a long and hard period of the development between the two World Wars. The early twentieth century started from the Fauvism movement that was led by Henri Matisse and his coloured way to define the reality. The avant-garde stream brought an art revolution that included Cubism and Dadaism. The Abstract Expressionism emerged in the U.S. after the chaos of the World War II. It became the first American movement that gained an international significance.…

Appendices Appendix 1 ‘The Manhattan Transcripts’ by Bernard Tschumi “The Manhattan Transcripts is a theoretical project of drawings, they differ from the most architectural drawings insofar as they are neither real projects nor mere fantasies. They propose to transcribe an architectural interpretation of reality. To this aim, they use a particular structure indicated by photographs that either direct or ‘witness’ events (some would say ‘functions’, others would call them ‘programs’) At the…

The practice of writing-whether it was to contextualize their own work, or that of their peers through analytical and critical writing-became an increasingly common practice among artists during the 1960’s. This was perhaps a consequence of the sudden increase in accessibility of university education and graduate degrees in fine arts in the mid 20th century. One such writer-artist was Dan Graham, who consistently published various written works related to his artistic production over more than…

POST MODERNISM, AROSE FROM THE FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENT TO AND AS A COUNTER CULTURAL MOVEMENT AGAINST MODERNISM IN 1960’S. And in the conflicts which exist between these signal systems – between the modern and the post-modern movements, between the regional and the international, the vernacular and the theoretical are reflected the tensions and conflicts which exist within Australian society…. There is no mainstream; current Australian architecture is nothing if not pluralist. To shed some…

implications. The modernist architectural styles not only involve Brutalism but many others in which also display ideas of exterior concrete use. A range of these architectural styles include Constructivism, the International style, Expressionism, Postmodernism, and Deconstructivism all to which had similar characteristics to the Brutalist style. This evidently shows the cruciality of accuracy in definitions within the modern era and what characterised each of the…

an incompatible mismatch of cultural performances, a comparison of Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters and Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-sœurs reveals that the result is actually a form a theatre that embodies the tried-and-true elements of Western postmodernism, yet carries with it an unparalleled esprit de corps. The two plays—Highway’s The Rez Sisters being an adaptation of Tremblay’s Les Belles-sœurs—are, upon thorough examination, very similar in terms of their social and political impacts, use…

The Telecom Building, Wellington I have chosen the (Old) Telecom Building in Wellington as my study of Wellington buildings. The reason why I have made this selection is because of my curiosity. The way this building appeals to me and attracts me in is its strange green façade exterior, hooked my eyes every time I walk pass Manners Street. The Telecom Building is located at 13 – 27 Manners Street, Te Aro, Wellington. After a quick online search, it was very easy to find out that the building…

people can be pushed to succeed by rewards and recognition. The interpretive symbolic, however, has limitations because there is no way of knowing if an employee is doing his job well if no one is there to check his work performance. To finish, Postmodernism, born in 1920, is a cultural and intellectual phenomenon. It comes after modernism and therefore denotes a refusal of the current socio-economic climate. The term modernism has different cultural, economic and social aspects. These aspects…