Post Modernism - Visual Arts - Deconstructing Art History
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What can you tell about this CANON work?
- The Dinner Party, by Judy Chicago.
- Made in 1993.
- Postmodernism, Feminist Art (Deconstructing art history).
- One of the first iconic Feminist artwork.
- Derrida's Postmodernist philosophy:
- Revealing what's left unsaid.
- Homage to ignored/underrated women in history books.
- 39 plates for 39 ignored/underrated women in history.
- Postmodernism:
- Interest in minorities.
- Eclecticism.
- Fragmentation of subject.
- In CANON:
- Feminist art.
What is important about Linda Nochlin's (1931-2017) essay Why have there been no great Women Artists? (1971)?
- Men, especially men of today can't be blamed for the lack of female artists in art history.
- It's not that the great female artists were left out of Art History, they simply didn't exist.
- Mostly because an inequality of chances (great artists needed to study art etc.).
- We need to change the chances for female artists to study and make great art + women need to step up.
With the deconstructing of Art History of people of Color, a lot is the same as with feminist art (Nochlin's essay), but there is one big difference. Can you tell which difference?
- Not only are People of Color absent in Art History as artists, also in artworks themselves.
- I.e., not many colored people depicted in artworks.
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What do you know about the Pictures Generation?
- Postmodernist art movement.
- Their critical analysis of media culture.
- Work with second-hand images.
- If originality is no longer possible (Derrida), than why try?
- Examine strategies and codes of representatation.
- Material:
- Photography
- Picture of a picture (death of the author). .
- Film.
- Paper.
- Inspired by Baudrillard's essay on simulacrum.
- I.e., images have lost connection with reality.
- Can Photography claim to represent the truth?
What can you tell about this CANON work?
- Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum, by the Guerrilla Girls.
- Made in 1989.
- Pictures Generation (meets Feminist Art).
- Critical analysis of media culture.
- Examine strategies and codes of representation.
- Feminist art:
- Questioning women's position.
- Wearing gorilla masks --> Death of the Author (Author doesn't matter, the message matters).
- Intertextuality, use art to comment to make their points.
- Postmodernism:
- Interrest in minorities.
- Fragmentation of the subject.
- Disappearing autonomy.
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