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TOPIC: POST MODERNISM&POPULAR CULTURE
PAPER:8 THE CULTURAL STUDIES(2983)
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INTRODUCTION
The Post-Modernism era came after the end of the Modern era, but it’s impossible to say exactly when.
The Modern era was the time of recovery from World War II, which started globalization.
Time period: From late 1970s to today
It rejects the opposition between 'high 'or elite culture & ‘low 'or mass culture
It interrogates any notion,philosofy or ideal of general universal and overarching nature.
It rejects the claim of any universal or totalizing theory
It celebrates plurality ,heterogeneity, and the small, local, innovative, marginalized and unfinished narratives that respect difference and specificities of culture, individuals and regions
In literature it collapses the distinction between genres and conventions.
The thriller formats becomes part of the ‘serious novel. Comic elements and absurdity mark the author’s attitude to
tragic events like death, suffering.
Jean-Francois LyotardJEAN BAUDRILLARD
E.G.Josef Heller's
Catch 22
The fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Virilio
Myths ,fairy tales, legends and contemporary realities merge
Donald Barthelme
Salman Rushdie
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Historical figures jostle with contemporary people
E.g. use of Goethe and Hemingway as character by Milan kundera.
It becomes impossible to distinguished between reality and illusion ,for both the characters and reader.
E.g. Pynchon's ‘’The Crying of lot 49
The distinction between ‘real’ history and ‘mere’ fiction is called into question
E.g. Graham Swift’s ‘’Waterland’’.
WHAT IS POST-MODERNISM?Many way’s to describe it and how it started:
Something with no absolute truth.
Depicts that reality is a social constrict and is subject to change.
Where “Breaking the Rules” is something EVERYBODY is doing and becomes common, or what’s expected (ie. Boring).
Urge to depart from the norm lost its impact when it BECAME the norm.
People give up trying to break traditions.
The era where Modern art is accepted by the public.
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The Modern era, basically, broke all the rules that
could be broken.
MORE ABOUT THE ERA
What influenced it?
Some say it was World War II that started it. The strength of unification and dying thought of objectivity brought about this era.
Other say the overuse of modern art caused it. Everybody was doing the “unique” (breaking traditional rules), which became the normal.
Where it began/spread?
Began:GermanyWestern America
Spread:Eastern AmericaEuropeIndiaAsia
Barbara Kurger
This is a difficult era to describe only
because we’re still experiencing it.
ARCHITECTURE
These buildings didn’t have any identity, purpose, meaning, or mystery.
During Post-Modern, architects created these buildings on the next slide…
These are MODERN buildings.
The best of Post-Modernism is displayed in architecture.
The utopian, International Style of buildings (refer to the left pictures) was popular back then, even during the Modern era.
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PAINTING
Pop Art(Before Post-Modern)
Post-Modern artists were known as Neo-expressionisms, whom use vivid color to express objects and human beings.
Post-Modern paintings came right after the end of Pop Art.
You can very easily tell the difference between the two.
Post-Modern Art
Elizabeth Murray
Susan Rothenberg
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More
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Jazz
Susan Rothenberg was the first few artists in this era.
She combines minimalism with cubism, creating mystery VS material elements in her paintings.
Elizabeth Murray combines personal meaning with innovative form, especially in More than you know.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Modern Photography always had one thing in common:One subject and an objective meaning.
Post-Modern Photography has a subject and many hidden meanings, while avoiding any one objective meaning.
Modern
Trust Absolute Truth
Fact through logic and
observation
Desire for an absolute doctrine
Emphasized logic
proportions
Post-Modern
Reject truth, point out
assumptions
Facts created by assumptions
Diversity of doctrines
Emphasizes story, journey,
discovery
POPULAR CULTURE
There was a time before 1960s when popular culture was not studied by academics-where it was well, just popular culture.
There are 4 types of popular culture analysis
Production
Textual
Audience
Historical
1)Production analysis ask the question like
• Who owns the media?• Who creates texts and why?• How democracratic or elitist is the
production of popular culture?• What about works written only for
money?
This approaches view culture as a narrative or story telling process in which particular texts or cultural artifacts.
E.G. : A hit song or television program
A key here is how texts create subject position or identities for those who use them.
Postmodernism tend to speak more of subject position
2)Textual analysis examines how specific works of popular culture create meanings?
3)Audience analysis asks how different groups of popular culture consumers, or users, make similar or different sense of the same texts?
4)Historical analysis
investigates how these other three dimensions change over times .
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