POSTMODERNISM lecture

1. Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye 

2. Modernism:

- experimental

- innovation

- individualism

- progress

- purity

-originality

- seriousness

Postmodernism = binary opposites to above list

3. POSTMODERN CONDITION

- exhaustion

- pluralism

- pessimism

- disillusionment with the idea of absolute knowledge

BUT...some overlap

modernism:

expression of - modern life/tech/new materials/communication

post: 

reaction to - modern life etc

4. 

in 60s - art with different attitude (Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York)

Museum of Modern Art

Machine that blows up.

= art against art

technology = flawed, not safe

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start of p.mod sentiment

5. ORIGINS

-1917, German writer Rudolph Pannwitz 'p.mod men'

- 1960s beginning

- 1970s est. as a term (Jenoks)

- 1980s recognisable style

- today: tired and simmering

6. USES OF TERM

-after mod.

-historical era following the mod

-contra modernism

- equivalent to 'late capitalism' (Jameson)

- artistic and stylistic eclecticism

- 'global village' globalisation

7. THE LANGUAGE OF P.MOD ARCHITECTURE (1977)

- 15th July 1972, 3:32pm modernism dies (Charles Jencks)

- demolition of the Pruitt Igoe development, St Louis (bulldozed 4 yrs later) 

- utopia and technological determinism

8. P.mod has attitude of questioning conventions

- grand, make big statement

- reaction to rules

-starts as critique of international styles

- Robert Venturi

- Charles Jencks

- only rules? there are no rules!

- celebrates "kitsch"

9. 

-MIES VAN DER ROHE AND PHILIP JOHNSON, seagram building, NY 1957

= aim to create harmonious style

- PARK HILL FLATES, SHEFFIELD

c. 1960

= unpopular development by locals and residents

problem with crime, underclass

failed project

gov. had given it grade 2 listing so couldn't knock it down

so...gave it a post mod makeover!

URBAN SPLASH, proposed regeneration

people reacting to failure of modernism

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POST MOD

- AT and T BUILDING, PHILIP JOHNSON NY 1982

= "silly elements

-FRANK GEHRY, BILBAO 1997, GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

-JAMES STIRLING, NEU STAATSGALERI 1977

= modern v classical

- QUINLAN TERRY

10. J-F LYOTARD

-the p mod condition 1979

- incredulity towards metanarratives...totalising belief systems

-result = crisis in confidence

11. P.MOD AESTHETICS

-complexity, chaos

- ROY LICHTENSTEIN, this must be the place 1965

HIGH ART V LOW ART, DIVIDE BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE

12. LAS VEGAS - post mod?

- ROBERT VENTURI 1972

- freedom to let styles clash

-learning from Las Vegas

- QUOTE 1

- postmodern dystopia

-Bladerunner, pmod film

-ANDY WARHOL

13. MARSHALL. MC.

advertising is greatest artform (quote 2)