Week 2 - Post-Modernism - Ai Weiwei and Banksy.
POST-MODERNISM
This week's ALVC tutorial covers Post-Modernism. Use the ALVC texts and definitions from the internet to define the term and answer the following questions;
1. Define Post-Modernism using 8-10 bullet points that include short quotes.
2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.(page 24)
3. Use the table on pages 47 and 48 in your ALVC handbook to summarize the list of the features of Post-Modernity.
Use this summary to answer the next two questions.
4. Research Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994)
in order to say what features of the work could be considered Post-Modern.
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| 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994), Ai Weiwei |
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| Ai Weiwei dropping a Han Dynast Urn. |
6. Research British artist Banksy's street art, and analyze the following two works by the artist
to discuss how each work can be defined at Post-Modern.(Use your list from question 3.)
to discuss how each work can be defined at Post-Modern.(Use your list from question 3.)
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| 'Flower Riot', Banksy |
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| Los Angeles (2008), Banksy |
Answers:
1)10 main points to define post-modernism
- reflexive, that he/she is self-aware
- relativism, the idea that anything goes
- socail consructivism
- equity
- pluralism, that all voices have the right to speak
- irony
- no grand narritive
- rejection of the views of modernism
- constructive
-deconstructive
2) the modernism artist as witcombe(2000) says is "reflexive" in that he/she is self aware and consciously involved in a process of thinking about him/herself and society in a deconstructive manner,"damasking" pretensions, becoming aware of his/her cultural self in history, and accelerating the process of self-consciousness.(pg 24)
3)post-modernism was a movement in witch began because off the disagreement of the old way being modernism. it quickly put the problems that the world was facing to rest. the movement of the new age as some call it in with supports individual freedom and plurality.
4) Ai Weiwei's "Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo"
