I can understand all that from an art standpoint...but what about from
an overall cultural standpoint? I mean, it appears to me that this is a
postmodern world (or, at least, US culture is). Film, music, and
television, seem to be full of patiche...there seems to be little entirely
original ideas entering any of these areas. In fact, there seems to be a
lack of original ideas anywhere in society. I'm not complaining about it
at all either, I find it quite amusing actually.... That's just my opinion
though.
-=gus=-
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:41:17 -0000
> From: "Julian Lawton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: modernism...etc...
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> > It's an old debate on here. The line I'll trot out is that (1) the term
> post-modernism was coined in about 1870 and (2) with it's mix-and-match
> steals from Jamaica, America, France and Italy, mod was post-modern
> to start with.
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> >Isn't the natural progression of modernism now to
> >move into the postmodern.
> Whatever that means, no. As a counter-example, you could look
> at (conveniently) 60s Art - on the one hand, Warhol, progressing
> towards the post-modern, on the other you've got someone
> like Bridget Riley, whose work is purely Modern.
> You can see the same divide moving back another 30 years,
> between Duchamp and Mondrian. So, OK, it gets confusing
> when post-modern artists that start using targets as a 60s
> reference, but . . .
> so it goes in other areas.
>
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