The following contemporary artists both represent their works in a post-modern frame. Post-modern can include irony and paradox‚ appropriation and pastiche and intersexuality. Gordon Bennett and Fiona Hall fit into one of these categories. Bennett’s painting Outsider‚ Oil and acrylic on canvas‚ 1988 is a violent painting using appropriation of Vincent Van Gogh’s artwork‚ and the treatment of aboriginals in today’s society. Fiona Hall’s sculpture of the Nelumbo nucisera‚ lotus‚ elum‚ thamarei‚ aluminium
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Analyse the presentations of conflict in "Animal Farm" Introduction George Orwell wrote "Animal Farm" in 1945 as a parody on the Russian Revolution. Orwell was a socialist and felt that communism did not work and that there was corruption in the leadership. The novel struggled to be published initially as people recognised the subtle insults which it contained. Orwell wanted to show how ignorance and indifference could lead to a horrific life for the ordinary people. The novel is a satire using
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its literary parody. Don Quixote parodies the anticipation of chivalric affection: lone knights had lost their military essence. The dominant classes still served the ideology of chivalry. The loss chivalry can be tied into the War of the Alpujarras. The knights‚ the caballeros de cuantia‚ were obligated to keep their horse and armor ready for serving the king‚ but slowly and shamefully they were unprepared. The knight’s individual language of knightly service represents the parody realism of chivalry
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additional criterion for evaluating subcultures and countercultures. Finally‚ the concept of subculture is further broken down into subcategories so that "youth subcultures" can be examined from two basic viewpoints‚ that of the traditional and the postmodern views. Keywords Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS); Counterculture; Ethnic Groups; Neotribe; Postmodernism; Post-Subcultures; Psytrance; Subculture Subcultures Overview Defining Subculture For more than half a century in sociology
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“Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” By Jean-François Lyotard‚ trans. Régis Durand. NOTE: Written in 1982‚ as postscript to The Postmodern Condition (1979) A Demand This is a “period of slackening” in the “color of the times”. “From every direction we are being urged to put an end to experimentation‚ in the arts and elsewhere”. Bauhaus (1919-1933 Germany: Walter Gropius founded this movement of artists‚ writers‚ architects. Shut down by Hitler for being very radical‚ left-wing)
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of the uneducated and weak. The pigs manipulate the working class similar to how Trotsky and Stalin did in the Russian revolution. Orwell criticises how the pigs in the Russian revolution manipulate and control the working class by using irony and parody. Animals farm is an allegory of the failure of the Russian revolution and the socialist ideals that created the Russian revolution‚ leading to the establishment of a political elite that perpetuated gross inequality. Orwell uses the events in
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Kozinski ruled the song was protected as a parody under the trademark doctrine of nominative use and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. He also threw out the defamation lawsuit that Aqua’s record company filed against Mattel. Kozinski concluded his ruling by saying‚ "The parties are advised to chill."[4][5] The case was dismissed‚ and in the process‚ it garnered lots
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social media and the internet‚ it is useful to consider his past achievements and current strategies through a SWOT analysis. Weird Al’s ability to stay current throughout his 30 year career is a huge advantage and strength over some of the amateur parody artists in the music industry. He is certainly no stranger to stirring up attention when he has a new album release or wants to create a viral
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marked by attitudes of skepticism which challenges many of the ideals of Modernism. As an opposition towards the modern era‚ Postmodernism can be identified in art through its related terms such as fragmentation‚ hyper-realism‚ deconstruction‚ pastiche and ambiguity. Specifically‚ postmodernism refutes such concepts as reality‚ the ability to reach perfection‚ absolute truth‚ the structures of capitalism‚ ideals represented within popular culture‚ political values and other core concepts related
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optimism or technological pessimism? In The Idea of Technology and Postmodern Pessimism Leo Marx‚ a leading historian of technology and American culture‚ argues that while technological optimism had been the default mode of American culture throughout most of its history‚ technological pessimism asserted itself to an unprecedented degree in the second half of the twentieth century. His essay traces the roots of what he terms “postmodern pessimism” in the earlier‚ dominant technological optimism and
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