POSTMODERNISM

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POSTMODERNISM

• MUSIC, ARCHITECTURE, ART

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MUSIC

• Rebel against the idealistic principles set by
  Modernism
• Mixing of genres, mediums, or styles
• Blur the boundaries between what was known as
  high-art music and music that sounded tasteless
• Laurie Anderson, O Superman

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POSTMODERNISMARCHITECTURE

• Interesting lines and curves
• Surprise, contradiction, self-mockery, and
  originality

Frank Gehry
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Michael Graves
U.S. Post Office Celebration, Florida
Humana Building Louisville, Kentucky
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Robert VenturiDenise Scott Brown

• Less is a bore

Perelman Quadrangle, University of
Pennsylvania 2000
Vanna Venturi House Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 1964
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POSTMODERNISMART

• Joining together of various art forms used
  throughout arts history
• All forms of art come together to create visually
  stimulating, unique, and original pieces
• Blur the boundaries between high art and low art

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Barbara Kruger
Jenny Holzer