Exploration of the term post-modernism

1. What is post-modernism?
Modernism
Modernism is a theoretical measure that
mess with the absolutes ,changes arose in
the transformations in Western society in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Modernism is thought to be understood as
an experimental form which shifts from
original concepts in the media. Its creative
revolution rejects realism and is expressed
as something known to abstract art.
Post –modernism
Illusion of realty post-modernism became a
innovative movement that evaluated the
modernist era with doubt and
deconstruction. The idea that it is obvious a
recurring pattern to previous symbols but it
used in a different context.
Music Video and post modernism
The impact of the fast editing and intense imagery
throughout music videos has raised attention spans
to postmodernism. A particular example of this is
known as the hall of mirrors where the idea of
bamboozling the author through visual
communication is present.
Guy Debord is best known works are his theoretical
books including ‘The Society of the Spectacle’. He
was deeply distressed by the hegemony, and
excessively visual culture that reads high levels of
encouragement.
Simulacra and Simulation
(Baudrillard)
Simulation is the disconnection
between the real and imagined, the
idea how society is fixated on media
rather than their own reality has
distorted. It is believed reality is
defined by visual sources and
representations. This is a form of
society being overstimulated with
specuality and deals with paradox of
media.
Causality
Numerous scenarios no longer
follow a specific ordered cause-
and-effect pattern instead muddle
the narrative which becomes
ambiguous and disrupt the idea of
‘meaning’.
Meta-narratives
A disorganised narrative structure
has a key role to postmodernism,
meta-narratives tend to play with
linearity, and is often linked with
avant-garde movements.
The Zenith of cultural production
The idea of culture retransforming itself
as everything has been created to the
highest possible technical standard
therefore culture must remake itself in
recurring and abstract forms. In todays
world anything can be a form of art for
example the re-invention of a character
throughout a time period- Madonna.
Bricolage
The uniqueness of
merging two cultures
can change the
meaning. A key
example is the ‘Nazi
Punks’ where the
audience establishes
iconography through
punk and another
cultural expression,
this results in a new
meaning that is seen
differently that its
original purpose.
‘Truth’ is merely a concept
In postmodernism there is no
right or wrong, only
interpretations. This marks
that truth is getting harder to
define and only
interpretations can be made.
Visual communication has a
great influence such as
images, due to Photoshop
technology things are
becoming more problematic
as effects, layers and
techniques can be fabricated
on images reality is
inaccurate which stimulates
how things are presented.
Hall-of-mirrors/paradoxical
There are many different concepts showing the idea
of postmodernism. Hall of mirrors drawn from
Escher’s architectural illusions complicates what's
real to the eye. Story-in-a-story-in-a-story
narratives show the infinite cyclical of an image.
Hierarchies of taste
Concealing of both high and low culture (higher and
lower class) to create new connotation, which forms
new meaning.
Self-conscious
The impression of pretention thinking something is
real when its not, recognized as the Emperor’s New
Clothes effect.
Deconstructing
Metaphorically using a jigsaw, instead of putting
the pieces together, taking them apart to the
point of abstraction is the aim in
postmodernism.
Hybridity
The juxtaposition of genres to create something
new and in a sense complex, also subverting
existing genres and piecing together something
innovative