The Death of Post Modernism

[Ghetta Life]

>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>
>Thanks for your thoughtful response.
>
>Watching my environment I don't think that many people care for arts or a 
>development of every kind, but what I see is that our theatre ( in terms of 
>architecture a truly postmodern monster with a classicist original part, 
>the 60's modern addition and the 90's postmodern extension) still is 
>fighting an ongoing fight between modern classics like "Waiting for Godot" 
>and the boulevard-theatre the subscribers want.

Give me the modern classics.

> > But where do we go from here?  THAT'S the big question.  Clearly a 
>yearning exists for a return to a more idealistic view of technology and a 
>visionary future.
>
>Is it really?
>
> > But not with the naiveté of the early moderns.
>
>Given the things we've seen of course with some luddite suspicion . . .
>
> > As I said earlier "Neo-Modernism" seems to be taking hold at least in 
>architecture.  It may just be another form of retro-nostalgia, but I don't 
>think so.   I'm not sure how that translates into the other arts.  I think 
>one manifestation will be the decline of Andy Warhol's POPism (virtually 
>dripping in cynicism)

>Is Warhol really only cynical? Doesn't "pop" in arts mean that we've ended 
>the preterite role of "high art"? Putting "Marilyn" into every living room 
>and moving "Campbell's" from the Safeway to the Museum of Modern Art?

>From my perspective Warhol represents the devaluation of art into 
toungue-in-cheek social statement about consumer-culture and the (post) 
modern world.  Very post-modern in its references to "icons" which nobody 
takes seriously, all a big joke., ha ha.   He is to a large degree 
responsible for what many artists now call "the death of painting," which 
means the heroic individual creation of an artist putting brush to canvas 
(whether representational or abstract).  I don't think Warhol's art has 
anything to do with "Putting "Marilyn" into every living room," which sounds 
so democratic and open.

Ghetta

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