OUGD401 - Lecture Note: Post-Modernism

• Postmodernism since the early 1970's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/!lectures/history/1975/postmodern.html

http://ha065.wordpress.com/gamswen/postmodern-graphic-design/

http://shanny12.wordpress.com/modernism-vs-postmodernism/

• Reaction to the rules - critique of international style - there are no rules - celebrates what might otherwise be termed kitsch

• Complexity
• Chaos
• Mixing up styles and materials
• Parody, pastiche & irony

• Attitude of questioning conventions
• Aesthetic - multiplicity of styles and approaches
• 'double quoting', borrowing or quoting for a number of historical styles
• Jux-Tapositions - post-modernism irony
• Questioning old limitations
• Space for marginalised disclosure and new voices
• Post modernism architecture - gone is the clean cut and perfect
• Phillip Johnson 1978-84 NYC
• Las Vegas - got all around the world mini monuments
• Pompidou centre - paris 1972-77
• Neue Staatsgalarie - stuttgart - Germany 1977-83

• Michael Graves - Kettle for Alessi - 1985

• Phillipe Stark - Juicy Salif - 1990

• Post-modernism fashion - 1975 - punk etc

• Hussein Chalayan - furniture that turns into clothes - surface & depth - political or just shock factor?

•  Statements of who you are more than practicality

• Rothko - modernism

• Pop Art - consumerism - celebrates everyday - Warhol & Lichtenstein

• Michael Craig-Martin - Oak tree -1973

• Jeff Koons - comments on subject matter - not showing an amazingly beautiful piece of art

• Damien Hirst - mother & child divided - 1993

http://www.damienhirst.com

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2239504/As-prices-Damien-Hirsts-works-plummet-pity-credulous-saps-spent-fortunes-tosh.html

• Ofili 

• Emin

• Chapman Brothers

• Wallinger

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mark-wallinger-2378

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/february/mark-wallinger-underground-labyrinth

• Carson - Raygun

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_carson_on_design.html

http://layersmagazine.com/an-interview-with-david-carson.html

• Barbra Kruger

• Rachel Whiteread - House - 1993

• Banksy

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4820822/How-is-Banksy-artwork-faring-in-face-of-vandalism-theft-and-passage-of-time.html

http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html

• Richard Long

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-long-1525

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/sculptors/12820.shtml