Lecture Notes: Post Modernity & The Mass Media

Modernism involves- Experimentation, innovation, Individuality, development and the expression of new material, technology and a new modern life.

Postmodern is characterised by – Exhaustion, pluralism, pessimism, Disillusionment with the idea of the absolute knowledge where as Modernism is an expression of the modern life postmodernism is a reaction to this.

Post modernism began in the 1960’s and as a recognisable style in 1980

-Space for ‘new voices’

-Freedom

-Question of limitations

-Women, sexual diversity

Examples: Park Hill Flats – Sheffield

Frank Gehry, Guggenheim museum

Roy Lichtenstein

Jackson Pollock

Andy Warhole