Post-Modernism Session1

Lesson Objective:  to understand the 3 approaches to postmodernism  to understand the difference between modernism and postmodernism  to know the basic theories of the postmodern

What is postmodernism? ,[object Object],[object Object]

Postmodernism is a notoriously difficult concept to define. There are 3 approaches:  Historical  Stylistic  Theoretical

Historical ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What is modernism? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Think…architecture The simplification of form and the elimination of ornament

Art ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

So is that’s modernism, what is postmodernism? Think…

architecture… playing with the idea of conventions of buildings – making us think about how it is constructed

art… ,[object Object],This? Or this?

Alternative models in society e.g. family

So how can we define postmodernism? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Theoretical Approach Main theorists: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

10 mins to research theorists ,[object Object]

Jean- François Lyotard (1924-1998) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) ,[object Object],[object Object]

Frederic Jameson (b. 1934) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Stylistic Approach ,[object Object],[object Object]

Key concepts ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object], eclecticism  death of representation  uncertainty and the loss of context

So which approach will we go with? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

From what you have learnt today, which texts do you think could be described as ‘postmodern’?

Homework ,[object Object],[object Object]

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