Lecture 11: Post Modernism

I didn't quite understand this lecture and I really struggled to make sense of the lecturer, which made it really difficult to figure out what postmodernism actually is. However, after reading further into postmodernism I feel that postmodernism is a reaction to modernists reducing everything to their basic purest form. Postmodernists would take this idea further and they also began to question the truth of everything. This also reached out to religion, philosophy, literature, etc.

Postmodernism was characterised by artists consciously using earlier styles and conventions and mixing different art styles and media. It was also characterised by people having a general distrust in theories that had been previously presented.

I'm still not sure that I understand Postmodernism, but I am aware that it involves creating a copy of the original, but then questioning the originality of the original, nothing is unique or original, but rather everything is a copy of everything.

Andy Warhol is a good example of this idea in his 100 Cans painting.