Contemporary Postmodern Artist Francis Berry

Postmodern Art Blog: postmodernism in a fisbowl by Francis Berry

Through the looking glass, postmodern art offers as complex an image of culture as that of our contemporary society. Such a broad and multifaceted movement escapes ready definition. While it is said that no fish can see the color of its own water, some insightful essays have been published on the web about postmodernism. The purpose of this blog is to explore the dimensions of a conceptual definition for postmodern art by documenting relevant contributions.

Wednesday, April 4. 2007

Knowledge and Authority from Premodernism to Postmodernism

Louis Hoffman 's posting :

The Three Major Philosophical Epochs

Provides a useful synopsis as to the shift of attitudes toward knowledge and authority through the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras. Highly readable and thus quite worthwhile. Hoffman's essay also references a survey tabulated as a map which correlates global trends in shifts of fundamental human values. See http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/

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Sunday, January 14. 2007

The Economist on Postmodern Commerce

In Shopping and philosophy The Economist links predictions made by the fountainheads of postmodern thought (Lyotard, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Jacues Derrida) to the contempoary explosion of niche markets. Economic insight and a wonderfully lucid read. The Economist, Dec 19th 2006

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Saturday, December 2. 2006

Postmodern Iceberg

Post-Modern Art (1945) by Jim Lane and Talking pomo: An Analysis of the postmodern movement by Steve Mizrach samples the breath of materials published on the web about postmodernism. If the reader has only a few minutes to give to postmodern art, Jim Lane's essay dials right in on the subject. For a longer read, Steve Mirzach analysis puts postmodernism in broad context with a rare economy of words.

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