Session 8: Postmodernity & Visual Culture

Recap 

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism, marking a departure from modernism

HIGH V LOW CULTURE
HIGH

• depth
• high value
  
• spiritual
  
• elitist
  
• long lasting
  
• serious
  
• unique 
  
• politically motivated
  

LOW

• surface
• low value
• commercial 
• popular
• transient 
• gimmicky
• mass produced 
• politically influenced 

Order of the Simulacra (from Baudrillard) The representational image-sign goes through 4 key stages; Stage 1) It is a reflection of a basic reality.
Stage 2) it masks & perverts a basic reality.
Stage 3) it marks the absence of a basic reality.
​Stage 4) it bears no relation to any reality whatever.

Blog Task.

I looked over the text with a peer of mine and we analysed it together. 

Notes from the session