Reading and Response 1: Postmodern Approach
Postmodern Approach: Escaping the Confines of the Museum.
“Art Matters”
Bold captions added to Buses in Los Angeles
Barbara Kruger, 2012
Postmodern Approach: Collapsing Boundaries Between “High” and “Low”
“Doppel”
Dog figure made out of copper and phosphor bronze
Yoshida Taiichiro, 2019
Postmodern Approach: Rejecting Originality
“The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living”
Tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine
Damien Hirst, 1991
Postmodern Approach: Jouissance
“Extase”
Painting of a women being loved by a man
Paul Saucier, 2014
Postmodern Approach: Working Collaboratively
“Olympic Rings”
Painting to coincide with the 2012 Olympic Games in London
Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol, 2012
Postmodern Approach: Appropriating
“It's a small world but not if you have to clean it”
Cropped and enlarged image of Photograph, then adding red block with lettering
Barbara Kruger, 1990
Postmodern Approach: Simulating
“Ophelia”
Photograph from Twilight Series: Brief Encounters
Gregory Crewdson, 2000-2001
Postmodern Approach: Hybridizing
“Hollywood Africans”
Abstract art of the artists mixed ethnicities
Jean-Michel Basquiat.1983
Postmodern Approach: Mixing Media
“Popcorn Shells”
Painting representing heroes to African culture
Chris Ofili, 1995
Postmodern Approach: Layering
“You Are Not Yourself”
Photograph of women examining herself in a damaged mirror
Barbara Kruger, 1981
Postmodern Approach: Mixing Codes
“Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair”
Painting representing her denial in gender roles
Frida Kahlo, 1940
Postmodern Approach: Recontextualizing
“Mine/Yours”
Small figurines to display the family in the picture frame next to them.
Fred wilson, 1995
Postmodern Approach: Confronting the Gaze
“There was so much more of me”
Bronze sculpture of the bottom half of a women
Tracey Emin, 2019
Postmodern Approach: Facing the Abject
“Santa Claus”
A Sculpture of santa known as the Buttplug Gnome in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Paul McCarthy, 2001
Postmodern Approach: Constructing Identities
“Becoming”
Documentation of a gender transformation displayed as artwork
Yishay Garbasz, 2008-2010
Postmodern Approach: Using Narratives
“A Visit to - A Visit from the Island””
A history painting showing two different stories
Eric Fischi, 1983
Postmodern Approach: Creating Metaphors
“Karma”
Sculpture of a tower of men being blinded
Do-Ho Suh, 2011
Postmodern Approach: Irony, Parody, and Dissonance
“We become them”
Photograph trying to recreate image next to him
James Luna, 2011