Lecture – Post Modernism.
Painting is ‘washed up’, Duchamp said in
1912. In abandoning painting, he said ‘I want something where the eye and the
hand count for nothing’
1960’s onwards. Post-war period, 2nd
world war changed society
Duchamp, godfather of post modernism.
Decades before, ahead of his time. Art becomes more accessible, to everyone, but
less accessible To the common man, why is that art?
Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’… 1917! Wasn’t
allowed in the show, thrown out.
Bicycle wheel and snow shovel. When he was
looking for objects, stuff that DIDN’T inspire him, ordinary on display and
call it art.
Godfather of conceptual art.
· Everyday banality
Warhol. Richard Avedon
photographer. Interested in celebrity.
“Warhol’s Brillo Box
was the end of the modernist lie… Art had completed the line of
questioning…etc’
Brillo Box. Andy
Warhol asking what art is, doesn’t have to be lofty. Graphic Illustrator rather
than fine artist.
‘If brillo box represented the end of modernism
in Danto;s schema, fot the commodity critics it marked the beginning of postmodernism.
For them it’s key element was the recognition of the identity of artworks and
consumer products’
Campbell’s soup. about
repetition.
· Cross cultural references, eclectic
Euro-centric so goes
out to elsewhere. Yasumasa Morimura. Takes other’s art and uses it himself,
dressing himself etc. Olympia by Manet etc.
Vermeer, girl with a
pearl earring.
Chan-hyo Bae
1990, Existing in
Costume
‘The sun never sets
over the British empire’ etc.
· Democracy
Modernism not
accessible to common people, not only people who go to art galleries.
Postmodernists wanted art to be seen by more people as well as done by more
people
Susan Philipsz – sound
artist
Filter – Tesco 1998
Shallow sea – New York,
Guggenheim 2009
Lowlands – under
bridges, Glasgow 2010
Haunting singing.
Embed video.
· Semiotics
Signs/signifiers
Ori Gersht, Israeli
(Tel Aviv)
Weird still lives,
shooting an apple etc! making still image suddenly explode.
Original composition
of renaissance tries to capture a moment in time, this is the opposite.
Juan Cotan
Alessi – SMI –
sensation, memory and imagination. Triggering memory to make a sale
Aldo Rossi teapot.
· Material playfulness
Chris Ofili, the upper
room 2002, elephant dung. With this work, olli raises questions about the
relationships between civilisation and…
“the upper room is
like a single entity’ HAH
The last supper, 12
elements with 13th most important element,
Tate website.
Mark Quinn, self in
blood, also in poop.
Anselm Kiefer poppy
seeds and remembrance. 2nd world war artist
· Feminism
Barbara Kruger, we
don’t need another hero, not stupid enough, yur body is a battlefield
Andrea Dezso,
embroidery, lessons from my mother
· Environmentalism