Postmodernism

of its modernism approach and appearance. The purpose of this paper is to give insight on postmodernism worldview and why I feel that Christian worldview is far greater. First this paper will…

1. Modernism: Comparison Europe/Australia Europe was the frontier for Modernism in the art world, with the movement emerging mid nineteenth century from artists like 19th century painter Gustave Courbet . Modernism began during the Industrial Revolution, a period of rapid change in technology which profoundly affected social, economic and cultural life in Europe. Impressionism was most prominent around this time. Impressionism in Europe often depicted the beautiful architecture and used…

architecture fleets that Chicago has accomplished over the decades. In Chicago, people do not get the chance to see buildings that incorporate multiple different styles into a single structure. In class, I got the chance to expand my knowledge on Postmodernism buildings. A Postmodern building tends to have multiple different styles and designs incorporate into one building. The Postmodern concept is like a beautiful gourmet meal. In a gourmet meal, there is the use of multiple ingredients and it…

“The Postmodernist Turn” by J. David Hoeveler Jr. was written about the 1970s during what is called the postindustrial period. Throughout the 1970s the United States became the world’s foremost postindustrial civilization. There were new conditions that changed the way Americans operated, and even their insights of reality. Chapter 1 of “The Postmodernist Turn” is about postindustrailism after the second industrial revolution, the second chapter of “The Postmodernist Turn” is called wars of…

If the discourse of the avant-garde (as of all modernism) is built around the imperative of originality, then for postmodernism this is a passed stage. Hence the original title of this article, published in the October journal in 1981 - "The originality of the avant-garde: postmodern repetition." This title is interesting for its ambiguity since the colon can be interpreted…

Writers who adopted the modern way of thinking displayed a relatively strong sense of cohesion and similarity across genres and locales (The Literature Network). Postmodernism, in writing, focuses more on the inner self and consciousness of a person as opposed to resorting the natural overarching structures of the world’s view of literature. Rather than the promotion of growth of an individual, its purpose is more dependent on the idea of decay and a growing alienation, which both discussed…

presentation constraints of modern dance, postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance composition. The postmodern dance movement rapidly developed to embrace the ideology of postmodernism which was reflected in the wide variety of dance works emerging from Judson Dance Theatre, the home of postmodern dance. (Wikipedia, 2017) Postmodern dance values movement as a vehicle for a hidden meaning, with the sense that the audience…

Italian Futurism and English Vorticism are generally considered to be Modernist movements. Indeed, literary scholar Peter Childs includes Futurism and Vorticism in his seminal book aptly titled Modernism, placing them amongst other Modernist movements like Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dadaism (14). In one of Childs’s many definitions of Modernism, he argues that the movement is imbued with “radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, spatial or rhythmic rather than chronological form,…

Krauss is famed for her dedication to Greenberg’s Modernist approach, however later in her career Krauss also dismissed Greenberg’s theories and severed her ties with Modernism in order to move forward with Postmodernist theory. Later she became enthralled with newer artistic movements that she believed required a different theoretical approach, which focused less on the aesthetic purity of an art form, and more on aesthetics that captured a theme or historical and/or cultural issue. Krauss’s…

JEAN-JAQUES BEINEIX: Beineix started his career as a assistant director on fifteen adverts before releasing his first feature in 1981 ‘Diva’, which attracted the attention of key post-modernism theorist Frederic Jameson, who identified it as the first French postmodern film. Despite ‘Diva’ becoming a cult film for the youth of the time, the French film critic establishment did not appreciate the superficial aspects of its postmodern aesthetics. It was simply considered an irrational attachment…