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Postmodern art

Postmodern artis a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects ofmodernismor some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such asintermedia,installation art,conceptual artandmultimedia,particularly involving video are described aspostmodern.

Postmodern art
Data.Tron [8K Enhanced Version] byRyoji Ikedaon show intransmediale10.

There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these includebricolage,the use of text prominently as the central artistic element,collage,simplification,appropriation,performance art,the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as well as the break-up of the barrier betweenfineandhigh artsandlow artandpopular culture.[1][2]

Use of the term

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The predominant term for art produced since the 1950s is "contemporary art".Not all art labeled as contemporary art is postmodern, and the broader term encompasses both artists who continue to work in modernist andlate modernisttraditions, as well as artists who reject postmodernism for other reasons.Arthur Dantoargues "contemporary" is the broader term, and postmodern objects represent a "subsector" of the contemporary movement.[3]Some postmodern artists have made more distinctive breaks from the ideas of modern art and there is no consensus as to what is "late-modern" and what is "post-modern." Ideas rejected by the modern aesthetic have been re-established. In painting, postmodernism reintroduced representation.[4]Some critics argue much of the current "postmodern" art, the latest avant-gardism, should still classify as modern art.[5]

As well as describing certain tendencies of contemporary art, postmodern has also been used to denote a phase ofmodern art.Defenders of modernism, such asClement Greenberg,[6]as well as radical opponents of modernism, such asFélix Guattari,who calls it modernism's "last gasp,[7]"have adopted this position. The neo-conservativeHilton Kramerdescribes postmodernism as "a creation of modernism at the end of its tether."[8]Jean-François Lyotard,inFredric Jameson's analysis, does not hold there is a postmodern stage radically different from the period ofhigh modernism;instead, postmodern discontent with this or that high modernist style is part of the experimentation of high modernism, giving birth to new modernisms.[9]In the context ofaestheticsandart,Jean-François Lyotard is a major philosopher of postmodernism.

Many critics hold postmodern art emerges from modern art. Suggested dates for the shift from modern to postmodern include 1914 in Europe,[10]and 1962[11]or 1968[12]in America.James Elkins,commenting on discussions about the exact date of the transition from modernism to postmodernism, compares it to the discussion in the 1960s about the exact span ofmannerismand whether it should begin directly after theHigh Renaissanceor later in the century. He makes the point these debates go on all the time with respect to art movements and periods, which is not to say they are not important.[13]The close of the period of postmodern art has been dated to the end of the 1980s, when the word postmodernism lost much of its critical resonance, and art practices began to address the impact ofglobalizationandnew media.[14]

Jean Baudrillardhas had a significant influence on postmodern-inspired art and emphasised the possibilities of new forms of creativity.[15]The artistPeter Halleydescribes his day-glo colours as "hyperrealization of real color", and acknowledges Baudrillard as an influence.[16]Baudrillard himself, since 1984, was fairly consistent in his view that contemporary art, and postmodern art in particular, was inferior to the modernist art of the post World War II period,[16]while Jean-François Lyotard praised Contemporary painting and remarked on its evolution from Modern art.[17]Majorwomen artistsin the Twentieth Century are associated with postmodern art since much theoretical articulation of their work emerged from French psychoanalysis andfeminist theorythat is strongly related to post modern philosophy.[18][19]

American Marxist philosopherFredric Jamesonargues the condition of life and production will be reflected in all activity, including the making of art.

As with all uses of the term postmodern, there are critics of its application.Kirk Varnedoe,for instance, stated that there is no such thing as postmodernism, and that the possibilities of modernism have not yet been exhausted.[20]Though the usage of the term as a kind of shorthand to designate the work of certain Post-war "schools" employing relatively specific material and generic techniques has become conventional since the early to mid-1980s, the theoretical underpinnings of Postmodernism as an epochal or epistemic division are still very much in controversy.[21]

Characteristics

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The juxtaposition of old and new, especially with regards to taking styles from past periods and re-fitting them into modern art outside of their original context, is a common characteristic of postmodern art.

Postmodernism describes movements which both arise from, and react against or reject, trends inmodernism.[22]General citations for specific trends of modernism are formal purity,medium specificity,art for art's sake,authenticity,universality,originalityand revolutionary or reactionary tendency, i.e. theavant-garde.However, paradox is probably the most important modernist idea against which postmodernism reacts. Paradox was central to the modernist enterprise, whichManetintroduced. Manet's various violations of representational art brought to prominence the supposed mutual exclusiveness of reality and representation, design and representation, abstraction and reality, and so on. The incorporation of paradox was highly stimulating from Manet to the conceptualists.

The status of the avant-garde is controversial: many institutions argue being visionary, forward-looking, cutting-edge, and progressive are crucial to the mission of art in the present, and therefore postmodern art contradicts the value of "art of our times". Postmodernism rejects the notion of advancement or progress in art per se, and thus aims to overturn the "myth of theavant-garde".Rosalind Krausswas one of the important enunciators of the view that avant-gardism was over, and the new artistic era is post-liberal and post-progress.[23]Griselda Pollockstudied and confronted the avant-garde and modern art in a series of groundbreaking books, reviewing modern art at the same time as redefining postmodern art.[24][25][26]

One characteristic of postmodern art is its conflation of high and low culture through the use of industrial materials and pop culture imagery. The use of low forms of art were a part of modernist experimentation as well, as documented inKirk VarnedoeandAdam Gopnik's 1990–91 showHigh and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Artat New York'sMuseum of Modern Art,[27]an exhibition that was universally panned at the time as the only event that could bringDouglas CrimpandHilton Kramertogether in a chorus of scorn.[28]Postmodern art is noted for the way in which it blurs the distinctions between what is perceived as fine or high art and what is generally seen as low or kitsch art.[29]While this concept of "blurring" or "fusing" high art with low art had been experimented during modernism, it only ever became fully endorsed after the advent of the postmodern era.[29]Postmodernism introduced elements of commercialism, kitsch and a generalcampaesthetic within its artistic context; postmodernism takes styles from past periods, such asGothicism,theRenaissanceand theBaroque,[29]and mixes them so as to ignore their original use in their corresponding artistic movement. Such elements are common characteristics of what defines postmodern art.Art Spiegelman,when discussing his selection of a specific style forMaus,described a postmodernist's ability to develop a wide "palette" of varying styles that they can draw from at will, where their predecessors would instead focus on improving and maintaining a single "trademark" style.[30]

Fredric Jamesonsuggests postmodern works abjure any claim to spontaneity and directness of expression, making use instead of pastiche and discontinuity. Against this definition, Art and Language's Charles Harrison and Paul Wood maintained pastiche and discontinuity are endemic to modernist art, and are deployed effectively by modern artists such as Manet andPicasso.[31]

One compact definition is postmodernism rejects modernism'sgrand narrativesof artistic direction, eradicating the boundaries between high and low forms of art, and disrupting genre's conventions with collision, collage, and fragmentation. Postmodern art holds all stances are unstable and insincere, and thereforeirony,parody,andhumorare the only positionscritiqueorrevisioncannot overturn. "Pluralism and diversity" are other defining features.[32]

Avant-garde precursors

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Radical movements and trends regarded as influential and potentially as precursors to postmodernism emerged aroundWorld War Iand particularly in its aftermath. With the introduction of the use of industrial artifacts in art and techniques such ascollage,avant-gardemovements such asCubism,DadaandSurrealismquestioned the nature and value of art. New artforms, such as cinema and the rise ofreproduction,influenced these movements as a means of creating artworks. The ignition point for the definition of modernism,Clement Greenberg's essay,Avant-Garde and Kitsch,first published inPartisan Reviewin 1939, defends the avant-garde in the face of popular culture.[33]Later, Peter Bürger would make a distinction between the historical avant-garde and modernism, and critics such as Krauss, Huyssen, and Douglas Crimp, following Bürger, identified the historical avant-garde as a precursor to postmodernism. Krauss, for example, describesPablo Picasso's use of collage as an avant-garde practice anticipating postmodern art with its emphasis on language at the expense of autobiography.[34]Another point of view is avant-garde and modernist artists used similar strategies and postmodernism repudiates both.[35]

Dada

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Marcel Duchamp,Fountain,1917. Photograph byAlfred Stieglitz

In the early 20th century,Marcel Duchampexhibited a urinal as a sculpture. His point was to have people look at the urinal as if it were a work of art just because he said it was a work of art.[36][37][38]He referred to his work as "Readymades".[39]TheFountainwas a urinal signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, which shocked the art world in 1917.[40]This and Duchamp's other works are generally labelled asDada.Duchamp can be seen as a precursor toconceptual art.Some critics question calling Duchamp—whose obsession withparadoxis well known—postmodernist on the grounds he eschews any specific medium, since paradox is not medium-specific, although it arose first in Manet's paintings.[41]

Dadaismcan be viewed as part of the modernist propensity to challenge established styles and forms, along withSurrealism,Futurismand Abstract Expressionism.[42]From a chronological point of view, Dada is located solidly within modernism, however a number of critics hold it anticipates postmodernism, while others, such asIhab HassanandSteven Connor,consider it a possible changeover point between modernism and postmodernism.[43]For example, according to McEvilly, postmodernism begins with realizing one no longer believes in the myth of progress, and Duchamp sensed this in 1914 when he changed from a modernist practice to a postmodernist one, "abjuring aesthetic delectation, transcendent ambition, and tour de force demonstrations of formal agility in favor of aesthetic indifference, acknowledgement of the ordinary world, and the found object or readymade."[10]

Radical movements in modern art

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In general,Pop ArtandMinimalismbegan as modernist movements: aparadigm shiftand philosophical split betweenformalismand anti-formalism in the early 1970s caused those movements to be viewed by some as precursors or transitional postmodern art. Other modern movements cited as influential to postmodern art areconceptual artand the use of techniques such asassemblage,montage,bricolage,andappropriation.

Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionism

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During the late 1940s and early 1950s,Pollock's radical approach to painting revolutionized the potential for allContemporary artfollowing him. Pollock realized the journey toward making a work of art was as important as the work of art itself. LikePablo Picasso's innovative reinventions of painting and sculpture near the turn of the century viaCubismand constructed sculpture, Pollock redefined artmaking during the mid-century. Pollock's move from easel painting and conventionality liberated his contemporaneous artists and following artists. They realized Pollock's process — working on the floor, unstretched raw canvas, from all four sides, using artist materials, industrial materials, imagery, non-imagery, throwing linear skeins of paint, dripping, drawing, staining, brushing - blasted artmaking beyond prior boundaries.Abstract expressionismexpanded and developed the definitions and possibilities artists had available for the creation of new works of art. In a sense, the innovations of Jackson Pollock,Willem de Kooning,Franz Kline,Mark Rothko,Philip Guston,Hans Hofmann,Clyfford Still,Barnett Newman,Ad Reinhardtand others, opened the floodgates to the diversity and scope of following artworks.[44]

After abstract expressionism

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Main articles:Post-painterly abstraction,Color Field painting,Lyrical Abstraction,Arte Povera,Process Art,andWestern painting

Inabstract paintingduring the 1950s and 1960s several new directions likeHard-edge paintingand other forms ofGeometric abstractionlike the work ofFrank Stellapopped up, as a reaction against the subjectivism of Abstract expressionism began to appear in artist studios and in radicalavant-gardecircles.Clement Greenbergbecame the voice ofPost-painterly abstraction;by curating an influential exhibition of new painting touring important art museums throughout theUnited Statesin 1964.Color field painting,Hard-edge paintingandLyrical Abstraction[45]emerged as radical new directions.

By the late 1960s,Postminimalism,Process ArtandArte Povera[46]also emerged as revolutionary concepts and movements encompassing painting and sculpture, viaLyrical Abstractionand thePostminimalistmovement, and in earlyConceptual Art.[46]Process art as inspired by Pollock enabled artists to experiment with and make use of a diverse encyclopedia of style, content, material, placement, sense of time, and plastic and real space.Nancy Graves,Ronald Davis,Howard Hodgkin,Larry Poons,Jannis Kounellis,Brice Marden,Bruce Nauman,Richard Tuttle,Alan Saret,Walter Darby Bannard,Lynda Benglis,Dan Christensen,Larry Zox,Ronnie Landfield,Eva Hesse,Keith Sonnier,Richard Serra,Sam Gilliam,Mario Merz,Peter Reginato,Lee Lozano,were some of the younger artists emerging during the era oflate modernismspawning the heyday of the art of the late 1960s.[47]

Performance art and happenings

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Carolee Schneemannperforming her pieceInterior Scroll1975.Yves KleininFrance,andCarolee Schneemann,Yayoi Kusama,Charlotte Moorman,andYoko OnoinNew York Citywere pioneers of performance based works of art that often entailed nudity.[48]

During the late 1950s and 1960s, artists with a wide range of interests began pushing the boundaries ofContemporary art.Yves KleininFrance,andCarolee Schneemann,Yayoi Kusama,Charlotte Moorman,andYoko OnoinNew York Citywere pioneers of performance based works of art. Groups like TheLiving TheaterwithJulian BeckandJudith Malinacollaborated with sculptors and painters creating environments; radically changing the relationship between audience and performer especially in their pieceParadise Now.[49][50]TheJudson Dance Theaterlocated at theJudson Memorial Church,New York,and the Judson dancers, notablyYvonne Rainer,Trisha Brown,Elaine Summers,Sally Gross,Simonne Forti,Deborah Hay,Lucinda Childs,Steve Paxtonand others collaborated with artistsRobert Morris,Robert Whitman,John Cage,Robert Rauschenberg,and engineers likeBilly Klüver.[51]These performances were often designed to be the creation of a new art form, combining sculpture, dance, and music or sound, often with audience participation. The reductive philosophies ofminimalism,spontaneous improvisation, and expressivity ofAbstract expressionismcharacterized the works.[52]

During the same period — the late 1950s through the mid-1960s - variousavant-gardeartists createdHappenings.Happenings were mysterious and often spontaneous and unscripted gatherings of artists and their friends and relatives in varied specified locations. Often incorporating exercises in absurdity, physical exercise, costumes, spontaneousnudity,and various random and seemingly disconnected acts.Allan Kaprow,Joseph Beuys,Nam June Paik,Wolf Vostell,Claes Oldenburg,Jim Dine,Red Grooms,andRobert Whitmanamong others were notable creators of Happenings.[53]

Assemblage art

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Related toAbstract expressionismwas the emergence of combined manufactured items — with artist materials, moving away from previous conventions of painting and sculpture. The work ofRobert Rauschenberg,whose "combines" in the 1950s were forerunners of Pop Art andInstallation art,and made use of the assemblage of large physical objects, including stuffed animals, birds andcommercial photography,exemplified this art trend.[citation needed]

Leo Steinberguses the term postmodernism in 1969 to describe Rauschenberg's "flatbed" picture plane, containing a range of cultural images and artifacts that had not been compatible with the pictorial field of premodernist and modernist painting.[54]Craig Owensgoes further, identifying the significance of Rauschenberg's work not as a representation of, in Steinberg's view, "the shift from nature to culture", but as a demonstration of the impossibility of accepting their opposition.[55]

Steven BestandDouglas Kellneridentify Rauschenberg andJasper Johnsas part of the transitional phase, influenced byMarcel Duchamp,between modernism and postmodernism. These artists used images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.[56]

Anselm Kieferalso uses elements of assemblage in his works, and on one occasion, featured the bow of a fishing boat in a painting.

Pop art

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Lawrence Allowayused the term "Pop art" to describe paintings celebratingconsumerismof the postWorld War IIera. This movement rejectedAbstract expressionismand its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor of art which depicted, and often celebrated, material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography of the mass production age. The early works ofDavid Hockneyand the works ofRichard Hamilton,John McHale,andEduardo Paolozziwere considered seminal examples in the movement. While later American examples include the bulk of the careers ofAndy WarholandRoy Lichtensteinand his use ofBenday dots,a technique used in commercial reproduction. There is a clear connection between the radical works ofDuchamp,the rebelliousDadaist— with a sense of humor; andPop ArtistslikeClaes Oldenburg,Andy Warhol,Roy Lichtensteinand the others.

Thomas McEvilly, agreeing withDave Hickey,says U.S postmodernism in the visual arts began with the first exhibitions of Pop art in 1962, "though it took about twenty years before postmodernism became a dominant attitude in the visual arts."[11]Fredric Jameson,too, considers pop art to be postmodern.[57]

One way Pop art is postmodern is it breaks down whatAndreas Huyssencalls the "Great Divide" between high art and popular culture.[58]Postmodernism emerges from a "generational refusal of the categorical certainties of high modernism."[59]

Fluxus

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Solo For Violin • Polishingas performed byGeorge Brecht,New York, 1964. Photo by G Maciunas

Fluxus was named and loosely organized in 1962 byGeorge Maciunas(1931–78), a Lithuanian-born American artist. Fluxus traces its beginnings toJohn Cage's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at theNew School for Social Researchin New York City. Many of his students were artists working in other media with little or no background in music. Cage's students included Fluxus founding membersJackson Mac Low,Al Hansen,George BrechtandDick Higgins. In 1962 in Germany Fluxus started with the: FLUXUS Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik inWiesbadenwith,George Maciunas,Joseph Beuys,Wolf Vostell,Nam June Paikand others. And in 1963 with the: Festum Fluxorum Fluxus inDüsseldorfwithGeorge Maciunas,Wolf Vostell,Joseph Beuys,Dick Higgins,Nam June Paik,Ben Patterson,Emmett Williamsand others.[citation needed]

Fluxus encouraged a do it yourself aesthetic, and valued simplicity over complexity. LikeDadabefore it, Fluxus included a strong current of anti-commercialism and ananti-artsensibility, disparaging the conventional market-driven art world in favor of an artist-centered creative practice. Fluxus artists preferred to work with whatever materials were at hand, and either created their own work or collaborated in the creation process with their colleagues.

Fluxus can be viewed as part of the first phase of postmodernism, along with Rauschenberg, Johns, Warhol and theSituationist International.[60]Andreas Huyssencriticises attempts to claim Fluxus for postmodernism as, "either the master-code of postmodernism or the ultimately unrepresentable art movement – as it were, postmodernism's sublime." Instead he sees Fluxus as a majorNeo-Dadaistphenomena within the avant-garde tradition. It did not represent a major advance in the development of artistic strategies, though it did express a rebellion against, "the administered culture of the 1950s, in which a moderate, domesticated modernism served as ideological prop to theCold War."[61]

Minimalism

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Tony Smith,Free Ride,1962, 6'8 x 6'8 x 6'8 (the height of a standard US door opening),Museum of Modern Art,New York

By the early 1960s,Minimalismemerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots ingeometric abstractionviaMalevich,theBauhausandMondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity ofAbstract expressionistsurfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena ofAction painting.Minimalismargued extreme simplicity could capture the sublime representation art requires. Associated with painters such asFrank Stella,minimalism in painting, as opposed to other areas, is a modernist movement and depending on the context can be construed as a precursor to the postmodern movement.

Hal Foster,in his essayThe Crux of Minimalism,examines the extent to whichDonald JuddandRobert Morrisboth acknowledge and exceed Greenbergian modernism in their published definitions of minimalism.[62]He argues minimalism is not a "dead end" of modernism, but a "paradigm shift toward postmodern practices that continue to be elaborated today."[63]

Postminimalism

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Robert Smithson,"Spiral Jetty"in mid-April 2005. It was created in 1970.

Robert Pincus-Wittencoined the termPost-minimalismin 1977 to describe minimalist derived art which had content and contextual overtones minimalism rejected. His use of the term covered the period 1966 – 1976 and applied to the work ofEva Hesse,Keith Sonnier,Richard Serraand new work by former minimalistsRobert Smithson,Robert Morris,Sol LeWitt,and Barry Le Va, and others.[46]Process artand anti-form art are other terms describing this work, which the space it occupies and the process by which it is made determines.[64]

Rosalind Kraussargues by 1968 artists such as Morris, LeWitt, Smithson and Serra had "entered a situation the logical conditions of which can no longer be described as modernist."[12]The expansion of the category of sculpture to includeland artandarchitecture,"brought about the shift into postmodernism."[65]

Minimalists likeDonald Judd,Dan Flavin,Carl Andre,Agnes Martin,John McCrackenand others continued to produce their latemodernistpaintings and sculpture for the remainder of their careers.

Movements

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Conceptual art

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Lawrence Weiner,Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole,The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2005.

Conceptual art is sometimes labelled as postmodern because it is expressly involved indeconstructionof what makes a work of art, "art". Conceptual art, because it is often designed to confront,offendor attack notions held by many of the people who view it, is regarded with particular controversy.

Precursors to conceptual art include the work of Duchamp,John Cage's4' 33 ",in which the music is said to be "the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed," and Rauschenberg'sErased De Kooning Drawing.Many conceptual works take the position that art is created by the viewer viewing an object or act as art, not from the intrinsic qualities of the work itself. Thus, becauseFountainwas exhibited, it was a sculpture.

Figurative painting

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Some currents of post-warfigurative paintinghave been analyzed as postmodern. The Italian painterCarlo Maria Marianiwas described as a postmodernist by American critics. According toCharles Jencks,Mariani's group portraitThe Constellation of Leo(1980–1981), which depicts people from Italy's art world with references to mythology and art history, came to define a trope of postmodern art: "an ironic comment on a comment on a comment which signals the distance; a new myth thrice removed from its originating ritual".[66]

Installation art

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An important series of movements in art which have consistently been described as postmodern involvedinstallation artand creation of artifacts that are conceptual in nature. One example being the signs ofJenny Holzerwhich use the devices of art to convey specific messages, such as "Protect Me From What I Want". Installation Art has been important in determining the spaces selected for museums of contemporary art in order to be able to hold the large works which are composed of vast collages of manufactured and found objects. These installations andcollagesare often electrified, with moving parts and lights.

They are often designed to create environmental effects, asChristo and Jeanne-Claude'sIron Curtain, Wall of 240 Oil Barrels, Blocking Rue Visconti, Paris, June 1962which was a poetic response to the Berlin Wall built in 1961.

Lowbrow art

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Lowbrow is a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comix world, punk music,hot-rodstreet culture, and other California subcultures. It is also often known by the name pop surrealism. Lowbrow art highlights a central theme in postmodernism in that the distinction between "high" and "low" art are no longer recognized.

Performance art

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Digital art

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Joseph Nechvatalbirth Of the viractual2001 computer-robotic assisted acrylic on canvas

Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process. The impact of digital technology has transformed activities such aspainting,drawing,sculptureand music/sound art,while new forms, such asnet art,digitalinstallation art,andvirtual reality,have become recognized artistic practices.

Leading art theorists and historians in this field includeChristiane Paul,Frank Popper,Christine Buci-Glucksmann,Dominique Moulon,Robert C. Morgan,Roy Ascott,Catherine Perret,Margot Lovejoy,Edmond Couchot,Fred ForestandEdward A. Shanken.

Intermedia and multi-media

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Data.Tron [8K Enhanced Version] byRyoji Ikedaon show intransmediale10.

Another trend in art which has been associated with the term postmodern is the use of a number of different media together.Intermedia,a term coined byDick Higginsand meant to convey new artforms along the lines ofFluxus,Concrete Poetry,Found objects,Performance art,andComputer art.Higgins was the publisher of theSomething Else Press,aConcrete poet,married to artistAlison Knowlesand an admirer ofMarcel Duchamp.Ihab Hassanincludes, "Intermedia, the fusion of forms, the confusion of realms," in his list of the characteristics of postmodern art.[67]One of the most common forms of "multi-media art" is the use of video-tape and CRT monitors, termedVideo art.While the theory of combining multiple arts into one art is quite old, and has been revived periodically, the postmodern manifestation is often in combination withperformance art,where the dramatic subtext is removed, and what is left is the specific statements of the artist in question or the conceptual statement of their action. Higgin's conception of Intermedia is connected to the growth ofmultimediadigital practice such asimmersive virtual reality,digital artandcomputer art.

Telematic Art

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Telematic art is a descriptive of art projects using computer mediated telecommunications networks as their medium. Telematic art challenges the traditional relationship between active viewing subjects and passive art objects by creating interactive, behavioural contexts for remote aesthetic encounters.Roy Ascottsees the telematic art form as the transformation of the viewer into an active participator of creating the artwork which remains in process throughout its duration. Ascott has been at the forefront of the theory and practice of telematic art since 1978 when he went online for the first time, organizing different collaborative online projects.

Appropriation art and neo-conceptual art

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Philip Taaffe,We Are Not Afraid,1985

In his 1980 essayThe Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism,Craig Owensidentifies the re-emergence of anallegoricalimpulse as characteristic of postmodern art. This impulse can be seen in theappropriation artof artists such asSherrie LevineandRobert Longobecause, "Allegorical imagery is appropriated imagery."[68]Appropriation art debunks modernist notions of artistic genius and originality and is more ambivalent and contradictory than modern art, simultaneously installing and subverting ideologies, "being both critical and complicit."[69]

Neo-expressionism and painting

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The return to the traditional art forms of sculpture andpaintingin the late 1970s and early 1980s seen in the work ofNeo-expressionistartists such asGeorg BaselitzandJulian Schnabelhas been described as a postmodern tendency,[70]and one of the first coherent movements to emerge in the postmodern era.[71]Its strong links with the commercial art market has raised questions, however, both about its status as a postmodern movement and the definition of postmodernism itself. Hal Foster states that neo-expressionism was complicit with the conservative cultural politics of the Reagan-Bush era in the U.S.[63]Félix Guattaridisregards the "large promotional operations dubbed 'neo-expressionism' in Germany," (an example of a "fad that maintains itself by means of publicity" ) as a too easy way for him "to demonstrate that postmodernism is nothing but the last gasp of modernism."[7]These critiques of neo-expressionism reveal that money and public relations really sustained contemporary art world credibility in America during the same period that conceptual artists, and practices ofwomen artistsincluding painters and feminist theorists likeGriselda Pollock,[72][73]were systematically reevaluating modern art.[74][75][76]Brian Massumiclaims thatDeleuzeandGuattariopen the horizon of new definitions ofBeautyin postmodern art.[77]For Jean-François Lyotard, it was painting of the artistsValerio Adami,Daniel Buren,Marcel Duchamp,Bracha Ettinger,andBarnett Newmanthat, after the avant-garde's time and the painting ofPaul CézanneandWassily Kandinsky,was the vehicle for new ideas of thesublimein contemporary art.[78][79]

Institutional critique

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Critiques on the institutions of art (principally museums and galleries) are made in the work ofAndrea Fraser,Michael Asher,Marcel Broodthaers,Daniel BurenandHans Haacke.

See also

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Sources

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  • The Triumph of Modernism:The Art World, 1985–2005,Hilton Kramer,2006,ISBN978-0-15-666370-0
  • Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock(A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts),Kirk Varnedoe,2003
  • Art of the Postmodern Era:From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s,Irving Sandler
  • Postmodernism (Movements in Modern Art)Eleanor Heartney
  • Sculpture in the Age of DoubtThomas McEvilley 1999

References

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