314 Pages
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Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
For better or worse, modernism and postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture. The Postmodern Arts begins by establishing definitions of both words, while also demonstrating the inconsistencies and contradictions which are inherent within them. As with all books in the Critical Readers in Theory and Practice series, the volume is... Read more
Part I Postmodernism: a new representation? Paradigms of the Postmodern, Using this book, Modern, modernity, moderniz: Economic transformation, commodity and consumption; Modernism and Its Consequences: Continuity or Break? The forms of art ; The genders of modernism ; The impact of war ; Rationality or the unconscious? Formal experiment or conventional form? Elite modernism versus popular taste ; Modernism- a limiting paradigm: Modernisms aftermath ; Postmodernism: from Elite to Mass Culture? Architecture, mother of the arts ; Representation in crisis? A lexicon of postmodern technique ; Subjectivity and subjection, history and nature ; Conclusion: Resisting the Postmodern: The use of paradigms: renaissance and postmodernity; Culture and the debt bomb Part II Essays on Postmodernism, One: Popular Culture: Rock on: the popular front against postmodernism LA: the city as postmodern future shock ; 1 Popular Music and Postmodern Theory In search of the postmodern text; But is it Art? ; Coda: hyper-marketing postmodernism ; 2 Recognizing a 'human-Thing': Cyborgs, Robots and Replicants in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner ; Dick's dystopia: the death of species ; Visualizing novels, thinking in pictures: Blade Runner as optical philosophy ; Epilogue: the Director's Cut, the cruellest cut ; Two: Architecture and Visual Arts; Postmodernism and the visual arts: the end of painting? ; Art of the women's movement feminist and/ or postmodernist? ; Tom Phillips: painterly skill and postmodern technique ; 3 Melancholy Meanings: Architecture, Postmodernity and Philosophy; 4 'The World Is Indeed a Fabulous Tale'; Yve Lomax- a Practice around Photography; HILARY GRESTY in dialogue With YVE LOMAXs Televising Hell: Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway's TV Dante; Painting language; 5 Televising Hell; Theorizing text and image; Three: Literature: John Ashbery: postmodernity's laureate? It was and it was not so:· the politics of fiction Violent misreading; Gayatn· Spivak: deconstruction and postcolonial fiction 6 A New Subjectivity? John Ashbery's Three Poems; Ashbery's postmodern successors; In conclusion: a pre-modern Homeric truth 7 Reading The Satanic Verses: Four: The Real and the True: Documentary Film; Documentary: how is reality represented? Trinh T. Minh-ha and the critique of documentary 8 The Totalizing Quest of Meaning
Biography
Nigel Wheale teaches in the Faculty of Humanities at Anglia Polytechnic University. He is the co-editor, with Lesley Aers, of Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum (Routledge 1991).
'This is a beautifully produced and a carefully, almost too carefully composed book.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
