ostmodernism', as the term suggests, is unthinkable without modernism.
Interesting that Postmodernism, as undefinable, varied and in the spirit of breaking away, and rebellion- It defines itself in relation to modernism, so is it really that independent?
Minimalism reintroduced the dreaded `theatricality', making the viewer a part of the work by requiring him or her to `activate' the sculpture by moving around it.
Reminds me of a scene in Manhattan (don't come at me for referencing Allen's work)
Two people standing in a modern art museum, it's interesting to see how this scene mocks the art form generally, but apparently, there is a little truth in it. The phrase "negative capability" seems like nonsense created as a joke.
Isaac Davis : The steel cube was brilliant?
Mary Wilke : Yes. To me it was very textual, you know what I mean? It was perfectly integrated, and it had a marvelous kind of negative capability. The rest of the stuff downstairs was bullshit.
uniqueness of the artwork by cannibalising his own work,
Erased DeKooning- It wasn't Rauschenberg's own work, but...
But artworks are objects in the world
While they are visual objects, we have constructed words and meaning, long ago constructed before our time, to describe the visual thing. It does not seem to me as a separate entity.
ruptures, or `paradigms', as he called them, which swept away the assumptions of the previous regimes.
When you relate this idea to popular culture, and look back hundreds of years at the arts, it is reasonable and logical the way that one movement leads to the next, based on cultural shifts, politics, scientific innovation. Baroque to Rococo to Neoclassical to Romantic, and so on. Instead of these movements/eras being relational to one another, are we, as humans, just assigning relations to connect the "ruptures" and to make sense of it all?
removal from a reality whose absence is not even fel
Appropriation?
situations that might be termed `postmodern'.
I am surprised to hear that she is using news coverage of the Gulf war as an example to explain postmodernism. To me, the way the news coverage is spun is more about propaganda, political influence, for emotional manipulation. But is that the very nature of postmodern? That it's such an "unruly" child that it can encapsulate such a wide range and diverse collection of content? Is it postmodern "because I say so"?