Abstract

Postmodernism : Profile of Cultural Movement

Terms that I don't understand:

What is defined as high and low art?
Postmodern, a broad term? Can this be subjective in it's artworks?
Definition: Conflated?
Change in politics in society, change in the definition of postmodernism?
Epistemological heirarchy's definition?
Authorization of culture?

• This term is used to describe visual arts, dance, theatre, philosophy, theology and many more that are up to date in the current culture of society.
• A term or label used to define advancements of culture multiplicity and technology.
• Postmodern, it is a way to deconstruct  or redefine modernism and challenge it's very tradition.
• There are several common features that characterize postmodern art forms. Intertextuality, self-flexivity, intertexuality and irony and imitation.
• Post modernism features are influences by the disdain of aesthetic and political authorities.
• "If the postmodern term were to be summed up in simple terms, it might lie in this inherent struggle to avoid heirachy in any way it manifests itself.
• Postmodernism has occurred due to the reaction from the authorization of culture.
• Jean-Francis Lyotard is said to be one of the most influential postmodern theorist and has reguarded this term Postmodernism to be a war against cultural and theoretical consensus and ideological unity.
• This goes against Habermas call as he explains it as "artistic experimentation".
• 1984 - Marxist theorist, Fredric Jameson is known to be one of the most prominent critics of postmodernism. He describes it as "a cultural dominant driven primarily by the forces of consumer multinational capitalism".
• Jameson has played an important part in defining features of Postmodernism. He describes it as "a new kind of flatness, of depthlessness, a new kind of superficiality in the most literal sense".
• He talks of the reality of witing of the historical past can no longer represent it as the style is represented "not through its content but through glossy stylistic means, conveying "pastness" by glossy qualities of the image."
• It is notes that the shift in private styles in order to create own unique styles, we base it upon what was in the past which is then integrated into the common technique used to represent the world.
• What Lyotard and Jameson are saying can be seeing in the American, television series, The Simpsons.
  
  
  
  Fredric Jameson