Lecture on Post-Modernism, April 14

Key Points:

• post-modernism involved questioning contemporary views
• Post-modernism came about through the Vietnam war
• those that couldn't affort college were drafted
• It was all about opinions and the ambiguousness of them.
• new wave type
• Wolfgang weingart
• Rosmiere Tissi and Siegfried Odermatt were very influential post-modernists.
• Paula Scher - "Art can only be repetitious".
• use of imagery and contradictory wording to cause audience to think.
• deconstruction
• Derrida
• David Carson "disturbing the audience"
• late 80s, with the Mac home computers, brought about more type
• making type became a fad and influential movement
• Fontography
• Use of pop-culture references to force views.
• culture jam "citational grafts"
• obsession with human body
• Extreme liberalism

Why is post-modernism important? Plainly put, it's the world we live in. The lecture tonight concerning post-modernism was a reflection of the last centuries, and the movements that brought us to today's artificial world, which is mainly about sharing opinions and being plastered by stereotypes and advertisements. Post-modernism was a break-through because things can be either conventional or liberal, it is all a matter of opinion and self-expression. Artists featured today made strong marks on human thinking, as well as causing us to question the world we live in.  What is reality and what isn't? It's all a matter of deconstruction and how we look at it. That's post-modernism.