Culture Quake - postmodernism notes continued

Post Modernism:

• Consumption
• Globalisation
• Post-fordism (Fordism = Setting up production lines. Exportation of goods)
• Flexible Accumulation = aquiring resources and land to gain money
• Shift from fordism to use of innovative industrialisation
• Media
• Risk
• Movement began in archetecture
• Rejected Modernist avante-garde, form, funtion and formalism
• Multiplicity/hybridity (combining a number of different styles of art/design in own work)
• Eclecticism (taking any visual elements from any source period)
• Vernacular (the daily and local language of the people)
• Mass Culture (high and low art mingle freely together)
• Joy (Free use of colours/shapes and decorative effects/playfullness)
• Irony (Postmodern art can make fun of its conventions)
• Ego (the artists ego is displayed unrestrained and demonstraitively, sometimes in a narcissistic or exhibitionist way.)
• Opposite of modernism
• Is synonymous with consumerism and capitalism
• No more high or low art
• Lack of 'real' reality
• Dissolution of society
• Audiences response decides what artwork means to them and is more important than the authority of the author/what the author thinks