Session7(16th december)

Creative Histories and industries (notes from lectures)

Number of ways of thinking for our interest/ Thinking about what i want to do in next stag?

what is my interest?

Overview

• Modernism and postmodernism
• intertextuality
• post colonialism/ colonis culture/ natural way to undrestand different cultural thinking
• Taste
• Subcultures
• identity

- We live in a post modern society

- key concept within contemporary art and design circles

- Post modernism cant be undrestood in isolation from modernism

-Post modernism(multiple view) vary scientific view

Modernis was not a period/ Describe a wide range of text that influence how we now think and experience the world.

Co-exist with other style and concern/ was a direct extension of enlightenment thinking philosophy.

- Religion has no place in a rational understanding of the physical and human worlds

-Initially modernism was concerned with evidencing progression.

-Nationalism was seen to be a source of conflict.

-Fine art became increasingly apolitical, advent-grade and abstract;Art-far-arts-sake.

-World war had a massive impact on modernists and hence modernism.

-Design was driven by reason radical break with preceding farms.

-Was international or translation style.

Post-Modernism actually about like style choices.

Life has become on interplay of local and global factors.

-Cultural plurality

-Negotiation of this cultural plurality is key to construction of a post modern identity.

Identity as 'text' to be 'written'

-Roland Barthes' The language of fashion.

-Intertextual.

- Identity is a text to written.

Advances in transport and communication technologies have lead to a shrinking of the world.

we can travel safely from one side of the planet to the other.

The global village has its benefits cultural fusion being on example.

Where two cultures meet new cultural forms can be produced.

-Japanisme

-A french term supposedly coined by phillipe burty in the early 1870s.

-Rediscovery of japanese art and design.

-Use of blocks of brilliant colours and stylization impacted on impressionism.

-Japanese graphic communication was heavily influenced by encounters.

-Risk of homogeneity(uniformity)

-Macdonaldization

-Term coined by sociologist George Ritzer

- Ideas of society taking on the charactism.

-Cultural imperialism.

-Ideology body of ideas or beliefs

- British empires

- America

-American cultural imperialism has been written about a lot.