- Postmodern theory emerges from architecture.
- Postmodernism; a doubt in modernism.
- Modernism is building the future.
- The idea of progress is doubted.
- It is characterised by;
exhaustion
pluralism
pessimism
disillusionment with the idea of absolute knowledge.
- Reaction to;
modern life, technology, new materials, communication.
- Jean Tinguely 'homage to new york' 1960. No progressive message.
- Modern world is self destructive.
- Origin; 1917 - Rudolph Pannwitz, spoke of 'hilisto, amoral, post modern men'
- 1960's - Beginnings
1970's - established as a term
1980's - style
1990's - dominant theoretical discourse
Today - tired and simmering
- 'After modernism'
- Contra modernism
- Global village; culture, races, images, capital, products.
- 15th July 1972, 3.32on - Modernism dies (Charles Jencks) Demolition of the Pruitt - Igoe development, St Louis.
- The original plan was for everyone to live happy together but the demolition was the reality.
- Postmodernism has an attitude of questioning conventions.
- Space for 'new voices'
- Questioning on the values of modernism.
- The only rule is that there are no rules!
- A reaction to the rules of international style of architecture.
- Mixing the old and the new.
- Crisis in confidence.
- Postmodern asthetics;
complexity
chaos
- Pop art could be emergence of postmodernism in fine art.
- High art/low art divide begins to crumble.
- Las Vegas - postmodern city?
- Did Andy Warhol take art seriously?
- Advertising is what we seek to give us messages.
- Femanism emerges.
- Punk - a postmodern movement.
- A vague disputed term.
