Post Modernism - Blog Task 4.

The Historical period we describe as 'Post Modernism' is from the early 1970s. Post Modernism is described as a reaction to the rules, there are no rules in all art. It includes complicity, Chaos, Bricolage (mixing styles), parody, practice and irony. Pop Art is a key feature/movement in this period. It is a reaction against Modernism, followed by Conceptual Art.
Post Modernism is the attitude of questioning conventions (especially those set by Modernism). These involve:
- Multiplicity of styles and approaches.
- 'Double Coding', borrowing or 'quoting' from a number of historical styles.
- Space for marginalized discourse: Women, sexuality, diversity and multi culturalism.
- Knowing juxtapositions or 'postmodernist Irony'. Questioning and limitations.
Las Vegas is described as possibly the most post modernist City. The post modernist architecture of Miles Von De Rohe, New York, 1957 is popular in this period.
Everyday objects for this period are Michael Graves - Kettle for Alessi 1985. The whistle blowing Kettle.
In Fashion, Hussein Chalayan - After Words 2000 - 2001is a reaction to civil war, a fashion table turning into a skirt from the spring /summer 07 collection.
In Art, especially Pop Art, Andy Warhol's Campbell soup cans 1962 were described as post modernism art.
In summary Post Modernism is the attitude of questioning conventions and methods. The multiplicity in styles and materials. The shift in thought and theory investigating 'crisis in coincidence'. It is a space for new voices. Some believe we are now in the period of 'Post Post Modernism.'

Andy Warhol - Campbell Soup Can (Tomato) 1962.
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-Warhol takes as his subject a ubiquitous staple food found in millions of American homes and turns it into high art.
- He displayed in the best of his early Pop art works he appropriates the curved lines and iconic graphic imagery of a tin of canned soup and re-examines them in the context of their pure visual qualities.
- With these works, Warhol took on the tradition of still life painting, declaring a familiar household brand of packaged food a legitimate subject in the age of Post-War economic recovery.
- Of all the varieties of soup that Warhol produced, Tomato was his most valued. Not only did it have a strong resonance for the artist, it was also the very first variety with which he began working, enhancing and augmenting it with his own unique style. 
- Andy Warhol’s’ Campbell’s Soup Can (Tomato) is arguably one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century. Painted in 1962, at the very birth of the Pop art movement, it contains symbolism that shook the foundations of the art world to its very core. One of the first of Warhol’s silkscreen paintings, the vigorous outlines and delicate patterns of light and shadow are distilled into a conventional, yet strikingly modern image which has gone on to influence popular culture for over fifty years.