Jose Abreu on kids transformed by music. Strange Maps. The Po-Mo Page: Postmodern, Postmodernism, Postmodernity. Approaching the Main Questions Postmodernism/Postmodernity is associated with an awareness of societal and cultural transitions after World War II and the rise of mass-mediated consumerist popular culture in the 1960s-1970s.
In culture and the arts, interpreters of this era describe the kinds of cultural hybrids that emerge from mixing (or rendering inoperative) the categories of "high" and "low" cultures, and hybrids in cultural forms that have developed in regions where local identities seek definition against, or in dialog with, Western "hegemonic" cultures (the mixing of "official" cultures and those defined as "other" in modernist ideologies). Postmodern views of history and national identity typically cancel a commitment to modern "master narratives" or "metanarratives" like progress and goal-directed history, and disrupt myths of national and ethnic identities as "natural" foundations of "unity.
" Primary Problem: Constructing Trajectories of History and Culture What was Modernism? Douglas Crimp - "Getting the Warhol We Deserve: Cultural Studies and Queer Culture" Getting the Warhol We Deserve: Cultural Studies and Queer Culture by Douglas Crimp Two years after the unexpected death of Andy Warhol in February 1987, the Museum of Modern Art moved to consolidate his reputation as one of the greatest artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
The huge retrospective exhibition of Warhol's paintings seemed dedicated, as if once and for all, to the idea of "Warhol as Art History," as the title of one of the catalogue essays forthrightly put it.1 This constricting of Warhol's cultural complexity was already evident a year earlier, when the Dia Art Foundation devoted one of its series of discussions in contemporary culture to "The Work of Andy Warhol. " The five papers and discussion that followed sought, in varying ways, to situate Warhol art historically; the purely disciplinary picture of Warhol presented by the symposium is captured in Gary Garrels's synopsis introducing the published proceedings:
Contemporary photography magazine. Takashi Murakami - Murakami Art Fan Blog. Takashi Murakami, one of the most thoughtful-and thought-provoking-Japanese artists of the 1990s. Fashion in Japan. Japanese Brands. Shibui means unobtrusive beauty.
Wabi sabi is the reflection of inner perfection, simplicity, the rustic and the unembellished. The company Uniqlo, whose 768 stores have annual sales to date of ¥462.3 billion (US$ 5.1 billion) and include locations in the US, UK, Hong Kong, China, Korea and France, is founded on the premise of high-quality, unadorned casual clothes for everybody using the best, most innovative materials and ever-evolving processes that allow the individual to come through by way of his or her own dressing habits. Muji, a simple lifestyle brand that uses natural and recycled materials and employs top designers whose names are absent from all packaging and merchandising, is thriving, with 433 stores across 16 countries.
There are no unnecessary frills in Muji’s design, and the price shows an equal amount of humility of spirit. Japan’s ancient Shinto religion is based on reverence for nature and the power of the spirit of animals. . [13-Apr-2009]