WEEK 4

Post Modernism

Idea 1

- Inherent meaning to a work of art.

- Determined by the artist at the time of creation.

-The viewer became an important determiner of meaning, even allowed by some artists to participate in the work as in the case of some performance pieces.

- Creating works that required viewer intervention to create or complete the work.

Artwork description & analysis: Marina Abramovic positioned herself passively in a gallery and invited her viewers to do what they like to do to her without any response.

Idea 2

-Dada readymade had a marked influence on post modernism in its questioning of authenticity and originality.

Postmodernism often took the undermining of originality to the point of copyright infringement.

Idea 3

-Breaking down distinctions between high and low art

- Incorporation of elements of popular culture.

- Postmodernism had it's roots in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the work of Edgar Degas.

-All visual culture is equally valid and can be appreciated and enjoyed without any aesthetic training.