This module relates theories of postmodernism to contemporary arts practice.
It begins by considering postmodernism’s relationships to both romanticism and modernism, exploring ‘definitions’ of postmodernism and illustrating postmodern features in a range of arts practices. A selection of postmodern term and practices such as pastiche, hyperreality, event, a crisis in subjectivity, intertextuality, the merging of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art, deconstruction and recognition of the ‘other’ are explored in more detail in relation to specific arts practices and texts.
The module also allows you to debate the cultural, social and philosophical implications and validity of postmodernism for arts practice today.
