modernism/modernity - creating order out of chaos
non male white hetro clean - become disorder and have to be eradicated
which muppet?
grand/master narrative - big story
- stories a culture tells about themselves
Post modernism - critique of grand narrative
- "mini narratives" - situational
- can change - temporary
ideas in modernism taken further in post modernism
"post"
- after
- contra (anti)
- equivalent to "late capitalism"
- artistic + stylistic ecclesiasticism
modernism
things can always get better
post modernism
not getting any better just faster
- making thing obsolete
Style
nothing is new - copy 'dead' styles
- "Retro"
1970's
Pompidou Centre - Paris - pipes on the outside
- showing the function of the thing
- its on display
good taste - a prison just 'play'
humour = wit more important than good taste
- a visual idea out of context
- art of "The Other"
insane art
Alison Laper - statue in Trafalgar Square
Judy Chicago - The Dinner Party
39 place settings for historical + mythical women
- TOP GIRLS - CARYL CHURCHILL
Ted Notten
- Haunted by 36 Women
- Ageeth's Diary
- Princess
- Wedding Pills
Acid Toby - Richard Slee
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Smiley face
- raves
- E/acid
Gertaud Mohwald
- shards of ceramics - forms her pieces from them
Alissia Melka Teichoew
Robert Du Grenier
