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"Postmodernism was more like a broken mirror, a reflecting surface made of many fragments. " vs "Excuse me child, I am trying to see all the colors and wonder your brightness can be. Return to nothingness and joy just might be right. " <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6070248399_edd6401c44_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6069/6070248399_edd6401c44_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 787px;" /></a> <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/postmodernism/">Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 </a> London: V&A from 24 September 2011-8 January 2012.I was born in 1974, which means in 1984, I was 10 years old. 1984... New Order has just released Power Lies and Corruption, Ronald Reagan is President, Derek Jarman releases <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/lightboxderekjarman/default.shtm">Imagining October</a>, The Apple Macintosh is introduced, Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles premieres, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41CrrUcDANs">Madonna</a> releases "Borderline, Ettore Sottsass designs <a href="http://catalogue.gazette-drouot.com/images/perso/full/LOT/32/1314/43.jpg">the Mimosa Table, </a>Andy Warhol paints a portrait of Michael Jackson, Keith Haring gains more and more fame, and by the end of 1984, there had been 7,699 AIDS cases and 3,665 AIDS deaths in the USA. A time of extreme movement and rebellion, this was my Y O U T H. Let's Dance! - David John <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6076472791_152b5e30e5_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6076472791_152b5e30e5_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 700px;" /></a> i-D, no 28. The Art Issue, August 1985. Styled by William Faulkner, design by Terry Jones, photograph by Nick Knight, featuring Lizzy Tear. London: V&A from 24 September 2011-8 January 2012."Of all movements in art and design history, postmodernism is perhaps the most controversial. This era defies definition... Postmodernism was an unstable mix of the theatrical and theoretical. It was visually thrilling, a multifaceted style that ranged from the colorful to the ruinous, the ludicrous to the luxurious." What they all had in common was a drastic departure from modernism’s utopian visions, which had been based on clarity and simplicity. The modernists wanted to open a window onto a new world. Postmodernism, by contrast, was more like a broken mirror, a reflecting surface made of many fragments. Its key principles were complexity and contradiction. It was meant to resist authority, yet over the course of two decades, from about 1970 to 1990, it became enmeshed in the very circuits of money and influence that it had initially sought to dismantle. Postmodernism shattered established ideas about STYLE. It brought a radical freedom to art and design, through gestures that were often funny, sometimes confrontational and occasionally absurd. Most of all, postmodernism brought a new self-awareness about style itself." "I feel so extraordinary Something's got a hold on me I get this feeling I'm in motion A sudden sense of liberty I don't care 'cause I'm not there And I don't care if I'm here tomorrow."(both lyrics by Hot Chip & New Order...)

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I don’t think of myself as a Post-Modernist (or minimalist). "I find the metaphors of the machine that Modernism embodies, along with the geometric abstraction of formal composition, to be alienating and sometimes even disorienting, as opposed to a more classical approach that considers metaphors of man and the landscape and a more figurative formal tradition." - Michael Graves All artists should simply use the materials that are appropriate to their ends. It’s a false issue to say this is ‘industrial’ and this is ‘art’ material" - Carl Andre. <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6208/6032979922_d8cf1f0f1d_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6208/6032979922_d8cf1f0f1d_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 551px;" /></a> Ah Michael Graves' residential projects make my mind do flips & circles. From early to late, there is something about his work that breaks so many rules, but often times, quietly. I've been staring at these images for a long time now, pinned onto a cork board. Today, they aligned themselves into a coherent thought (that is still up for debate). Here's to patience! Here's to sculpture! Here's to houses that look like sculpture! - David John "My father’s family were bricklayers and carpenters and shipbuilders, and so my earliest experiences are not of art, but of the materials and those are the materials that I continue to use. I never did anything that required the art supply store as I’ve always used industrial materials. All artists should simply use the materials that are appropriate to their ends. It’s a false issue to say this is ‘industrial’ and this is ‘art’ material" - Carl Andre. the minimalists' nightmare vs the postmodernist's painter delight images: top left, clockwise. (all images have been altered, perhaps ruined.) 1. <a href="http://www.michaelgraves.com/mgahome.trans.php">Michael Graves</a>, AD (altered) 2. <a href="http://www.carlandre.net/">Carl Andre</a>, wall painted behind. altered 3. <a href="http://www.beckybeasley.com/">Becky Beasely.</a> liquid turned blue. altered 4. Michael Graves, AD altered I would have to say that my architecture evolved in part as a reaction to aspects of Modernism. I find the metaphors of the machine that Modernism embodies, along with the geometric abstraction of formal composition, to be alienating and sometimes even disorienting, as opposed to a more classical approach that considers metaphors of man and the landscape and a more figurative formal tradition. That is not to say that my work is historicist or classical stylistically, which is part of what the Post-Modern movement argued. I don’t think of myself as a Post-Modernist. The Modernists tried to wipe the slate clean and the Post-Modernists tried to look back to formal motifs recognized from historical architecture. Instead, I think that modern composition is part of a cultural continuum that goes back thousands of years and therefore I tend to see both Modernism and the traditional language of architecture as part of the palette we use to compose our buildings. - Michael Graves, <a href="http://farticulate.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/31-january-2011-post-carl-andre-selected-works-interview/" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">please read interview here...</a> ------------

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