Postmodernism and Music

http://www.academia.edu/3058366/Postmodernism_and_Music

A link to a more academic approach on music and postmodernism by a lecturer who researches into music, culture and idealogy. This text goes into detail about the differentation between modernist music and the postmodern. It also looks at social and cultural effects on music.

In relation to Tom's post about Andy Warhol...

Hi Tom, I looked at that link you sent on Andy Warhol and I found it became a lot clearer to me based on the loss of origin. The fact that some people argue against postmodernism especially when an artist like Andy Warhol is reproducing a piece of art that has already been done before. The way Andy Warhol is an example of how postmodernist art could just be a form of repetition, everything that has already been done before?

Here is the paragraph I liked out of the article:

"Andy Warhol's work uses well-known images, famous faces and masterpieces from the past, such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa. Warhol recreated this painting, calling it 'Thirty are better than one'. The overuse of the Mona Lisa image decreases the link between the original masterpiece. Mona Lisa has already been created originally by Da Vinci, Andy Warhol loved and admired this masterpiece which Da Vinci created and therefore he wanted to enhance it more, but not taking credit for the original image. However some people argue that this work isnt orginal as he isnt creating a new piece, but recreating a masterpiece which was created by someone else. However on the other hand, some may disagree by saying that he is creating a new piece of art work out of an original."

http://tccpomo.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/andy-warhol.html



– Adam Reid

POSTMODERNISM

This guy is quite funny but also explains and breaks down the theory of postmodernism. It helps for me anyway to keep reminding myself what it actually is and also gives me ideas when I look for postmodern art and design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO_gaxFIRXw&list=PLZ9xwy-OlUxXgCpFIMKNzgdMVM82SHm1X

– Adam Reid

Memphis Postmodern Group

MEMPHIS

MEMPHIS was a Milan-based collective of young furniture and product designers led by the veteran Ettore Sottsass. After its 1981 debut, Memphis dominated the early 1980s design scene with its post-modernist style.

http://designmuseum.org/design/memphis

Carlton Cabinet 1981

Design: Ettore Sottsass

Beverly desk, 1981

Design: Ettore Sottsass

Nefertiti ceramic piece, 1981 

Design: Matteo Thun

In 1981, Ettore Sottsass and a group of Italian designers and architects founded the "Memphis Group" as a reaction to "the personal, slick, humourless design" of modernism. The group disbanded in 1988.

I think these design pieces are incredibly vibrant, eccentric and have an kind of ornamental look to them. Even though a lot of the art doesn't make sense and the abstract forms of the sculptures are quite abstract, it shows that the Memphis group were trying to create a new experience for an audience and to also take a swipe at modernism seen to them as "boring".

– Adam Reid

David Carson and Postmodernism

A link to a blog with sources discussing, David Carson and how his work is very much Postmodern.

http://shapeswithourhands.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/post-modernism-and-david-carson/

“the most influential graphic designer of out time” surfrider foundation, july 09,

he is said to have “the most important work coming out of america” american center for design

and to have “changed the public face of graphic design” – newsweek.

Incredibly famous article Carson used in his famous magazine Ray Gun. He claims the interview was so boring and no one would ever read it, so he changed the entire article into windings a symbol based typeface, which rendered the article un-readable.

- Tom Kiernan

Post modernism in Graphic Design

Post Modernism was First coined to criticize the "glass box" structure of International Design, within architecture. This later led to fashion, Graphic Design and many other mediums, the term "Postmodernism" simply meaning things that subvert or amplify established codes.

Wolfgang Weingart

Weingarts influence teaching at the Basel school of Design, influenced the look of Postmodernism so much that many students and other designers used his "Stair-stepping motif", which became synonymous with International and Postmodernism.

Example of Wolfgang Weignart's "stair-stepping"

















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

Tom

Andy Warhol - Pop Art

I have a found a very extensive if a little brief overview on Post modernist artist Andy Warhol with some references which could be useful.

The link:

http://tccpomo.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/andy-warhol.html

Tom Kiernan