Postmodernism and Deconstructivism

Editor's Notes

• #4: Oxy moron -  a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms. E.g. Original copy !
• #5: Modernism's universality and higher spiritual autonomy suffered a gradual crisis of confidence after 1945. Science, technology, reason, and the central state showed a nightmarish side in the highly organized, state-sponsored murder of six million Jews in Nazi GermanyBy the nineteen-seventies, the political ideals that fueled modernism had given way to profound disillusionment with abhorrent wars such as Vietnam War ( a part of cold War )Artists began to use artistic styles independently of their original political agenda. This appropriation of historic styles irrespective of their original ideological contexts sets postmodern art apart from modern art.
• #6:  International Style architecture continued into the 1980s (and survives today).The International Style itself responded to a new critique of its impersonality mounted after World War II  architects like Philip Johnson in the 1970s began building modernist buildings which tried carefully to work harmoniously with pre-existing traditional Beaux-Arts buildings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuryRichard Meier and I.M. Pei (East Building, National Gallery, Washington DC) developed a more beautiful, sculptural version of the International Style with expensive materials like white marble and more dramatic sculptural shapes, asymmetrical silhouettes, and a constructivist play of spatial planes layered against onePhilip Johnson - Architect in the 1970s began building modernist buildings which tried carefully to work harmoniously with pre-existing traditional Beaux-Arts buildings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuryRichard Meier and I.M. Pei (East Building, National Gallery, Washington DC) developed a more beautiful, sculptural version of the International Style with expensive materials like white marble and more dramatic sculptural shapes, asymmetrical silhouettes, and a constructivist play of spatial planes layered against one
• #7: First of all, postmodern art is differentfrom modern art in its abandonment of political advocacy for a singular ideology. The modernist viewed art as an agent of social change and helped to shape many of the political movements of the twentieth century.
• #8: High artLow Art
• #9: Love and Art undermines ethnic barriers. With eclectic appropriation its convivial roundup of characters assimilates a plurality of cultural attributes that cancel each other outThis painting makes liberal reference to cubism, surrealism, and expressionism without adhering to the stylistic purity of modernism or striving to advance any singular ideology. Rather than using style to convey monolithic ideologies, postmodernism undermines the manipulative aspect of ideologies by exposing the artificiality of style.Postmodern works require that viewers add their own interpretations for the work to be meaningful. Rather than assert absolutes, postmodern works of art evoke individual interpretations.Cubism, by depicting any object as a composite made up of fragmented and discrete views of itself, presented a new way of seeing time that echoed Einstein.
• #29:  the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something."