Post Modernism

What is Post Modernism?

  • The theory that the world we exist in isn’t reality and we all copy and imitate each other in some way or another, whether it be to ridicule or purely to reproduce. This can be seen through signs.
  • It is deliberate, intended, self-conscious, signs about signs. This may be frivolous, trite, casual, surface or throwaway.
  1. Pastiche= work of art that imitates the work of previous art
  2. Parody= work or performance that imitates the art with intentions to mock and ridicule it
  3. Bricolage= Rearrangement and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning
  4. Intertextuality= Signs only have meaning in reference to other signs, and that meaning is a complex process of decoding/encoding with individuals both taking and creating meaning
  5. Referential=
  6. Surface and style over substance and content=
  7. Metanarrative=
  8. Hyperreality=
  9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) =
  10. Consumerist Society= People devote a great deal of time, energy, resources and thought into ‘consuming’ something.
  11. Fragmentary Identities= A multidisciplinary collaboration, involving visual communication, performative arts and fashion. Exploration and reconstruction of identity in the modern age.
  12. Alienation=
  13. Implosion=
  14. cultural appropriation=
  15. Reflexivity=

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