CCS Notes (24-10)

Modernism to Postmodernism by Liz Farrelly

- Oskar Schelemmer’s Bauhaus Ballet

- Praxis

- Practice informed by theory

- Theory informed by practice

- Raymond William

- What is Cultural Studies

- The study of culture, media, design, images and objects in relation to the everyday like, power, politics and ideas, or you could say in relation with society

- Context, the cultural, social, political and economic context around the topic, pecs and images that we choose to study the wider societal context

- Culture

- dictionary definition

- William’s definition (“Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society” 1976)

- Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language

- A general process of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development… a partícular way of life, whether of a people, a people, a grouch or humanity in general… the works and practice of intellectual and especially artists activity

- In genera it is the range and overlap of meaning hat is significant

- History is a narrative account of events developed into a continuous and connected process that sees historical forces as products of the past which are active in the present and will shape the future in knowable ways

- Carolyn Steedman (“Dust” 2001)

- History os the most impermanent of written forms: it is only ever an account that will last a while. The very practice of historical work, the uncovering of new facts, the endless reordering of the immense detail that makes the historian’s map of the past, performs this act of narrative destabilizing, on a daily basic

- Wiliam

- “Critics has become a very difficult word

- Fault-finding… judgement.. taste

- A practice, in active and complicit relationship with its context

- David Macey ‘Dictionly of Crityical theory

- Critical theory and the frankfuty school

- An integration of disciplines, philosophy, sociology, ecumenic and history into a broad social philosophy capable of stying individuals and society in such a way as to explore the contradictions and interconnections to transform society, culture, the economy and consciousness

- WWI

- Problematic sense of progress

- Postmodernism

- 1800 realism fragmented into abstract art

- Stephen Bury (Breaking the Rules; the printed face of the European Avant Gandered 1900-1937)

- Henri de Saint-Simon (“Literaly, Philosophical and Industrial Options” 1825)

- “Let us unite. To achieve our one single goal, a separate task will fall to each of us. We, the artists, will serve as the avant garden: for among all the arms at our disposal, the power of the Arts is the swiftest and most expeditious. When we wish to spread new ideas amongst men, we use in turn the lyre, ode or song, story or novel; we inscribe those ideas on marble or canvas…We aim for the heart and imagination, and hence our effect is the most vivid and the most decisive.”

- Manifesto

- Declaration of principles and intentions

- Essential component of avant garde movement

- Futurism Manifesto, Published in Le Figaro, 20 February 1909

- Le Courbusier (1887-1965)

- Modernism:

- Forms follows function

- Purity of geometry

- Truth to materials

- Aim

- simplicity, clarity and good design, for everyone

- Downside

- One version fits all

- Postmodernism

- Borrows styles, historical and vernacular

- Revels in complex