WEEK 4
- Yi Jie
- Aug 23, 2017
- 1 min read
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.
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