Post Modernism

These are my notes on the Post Modern lecture.

The way i understand post modernism is, it tries to do everything opposite to Modernism, it came straight after or as a response to modernism, it is less serious and initially born from optimism, it questioned things that were not meant to or were not usually questioned it gave truth to materials (one of the big factors of post modernism and of the current day) and form over function, it created new art styles as technology progressed enough to allow new art styles to be explored and created.                                                        

I like to think that i understand Post Modernism as much as anyone thinks they can understand it in its catagorised form but there are still thrologists who disagree on key points of Post Modernism like when it started or has it even actually ended so i have accepted that this movment is and probably always will be above mine along with manys comprehention, there is also a disillusionment in Post Modernism with the idea of absolute knowledge and a search for Utopia within the chaos, this all again supports the fact Post Modernism will always be above manys comprehention, but what i can do is understand where the roots of modern film and games have come from and how things today relate and are undeniably influenced by things that have happened in the Post Modern art movment.

Post Modernism has also been described by Fredrick Jameson - Post Modernism is bottomless, empty, recycling with no investment. I have to agree with this statment as looking at several artists work like Piero Manzoni and David Shringley it appears to me at least that the artists work have no other meaning than to suprise people and while that can be considered an interesting for of art in itself it does not appeal to me as an artist.

There is also this idea of a Post Modern dystopia where technology and information overload will create a world like that which is portrayed in the film Bladerunner, Star Wars also springs to mind, this idea fits in with the summary of Post Modernism which was described to us. My summarising Post Modernism notes - Mix the highbrow and the populist, mixing the accessable and the unaccessable, and to sample elements from different styles + eras. Pick n mix your way through the gawdy fragments of a shattered culture.

This brings me onto again why this relates to me. Well