Postmodernism

Lecture Notes

1960s - Till today 
Different attitudes to what postmodernism is

• Starts as a critique of the international style 
• Robert Vanturi 
• Ideas developed by Charles 
• No rules 
• Celebrates what might otherwise be termed kitsch 
• Complexity 
• Chaos 
• Bricolage 
• Parody, pastiche and irony 
• An attitude of questioning conventions 
• Postmoder aesthetics = multiplicity of styles and approaches 
• Theme of 'double coding' borrowing or quoting form a number of historical styles 
• Knowing juxtapositions or postmodernist irony  

Designers/Artists 

•  Mies Van der Rohe and Philip Johnson 
• Ronzo piano and Richard Rogers - Pomprio 
• James Stirling, Neue Staatsgalerie 
• Michael Greaves, kettle for Alessi - culture gone out the window 
• Jeff Koons - Kitsch 
• Michael Craig Martin - Oak Tree 
• David Shrigley 
• Damien Hirst - Mother and Child Divided 1993 
• Tracey Ewin - Everyone i have ever slept with - My Bed 
• Jake and Dinos Chapman 
• Chris Ofili - represents black people, being a black artist 
• Bansky - Parody 

Helmut krone for Doyle Dane Berbache 

- Advertising 

• David Carson, Ray Gun    - legibility, - Grunge lifestyle, - look and lifestyle, - dont blame legibility   

• Barbara Kruger, - I shop therefor I am ( 1987 ) 

Selfridges, Buy Me. Ill change your life 

• Making a statement? 
• Making the public buy there clothing   

  
Postmodernism - attitudes of questioning conventions ( especially Modernism ) 

Postmodern aesthetics - multiplicity of styles and approaches        

Shift in thought + theory investigating 'crisis in confidence' 

Space for 'new voices'