Essays about: "postmodern art"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words postmodern art.

  1. 1. Cyborg Subject or Transformable Avatars? : A Study of Power, Body and Identity in Post-cyberfeminist Art

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Ida Mogren; [2023]
    Keywords : cyborg; avatar; cyberfeminism; post-cyber feminism; cyberfeminist art; post-cyberfeminist art; glitch; performativity; digital performativity; queer theory; gender studies; art history;

    Abstract : This essay examines the body in post-cyberfeminist art to study possible changes in how the body is perceived in the shift from cyberfeminist to post-cyberfeminist art. I have studied the body by examining power and identity in four cases of post-cyberfeminist art, using postmodern feminist theories and concepts such as gender, gender performativity, heterosexual matrix and intersectionality. READ MORE

  3. 2. TASTE - An investigation on taste and class in relation to - kitsch, art and commodified luxury.

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Viktoria Marie Madsen; [2021]
    Keywords : Smag; Klassedistinktion; Habitus; Kulturel kapital; Pierre Bourdieu; Cindy Sherman; Louis Vuitton; Artification; Postmodernisme; Pop kultur; Kitsch; Luksus; Roland Barthes; Myter.;

    Abstract : This thesis takes a closer look at the phenomena of taste in relation to kitsch, art and luxury, analyzing a visual campaign, by the luxury brand Louis Vuitton. The visual campaign is made by Louis Vuitton to promote a collaboration with the postmodern artist Cindy Sherman. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Theatre of a Thousand Plateaus : How can architecture accommodate the postmodern conceptions of the theatre and provide spaces for non-conventional theatricals where narrative is deconstructed and the audiences are active co-creators or co-participants?

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Rima Ohanyan; [2020]
    Keywords : Postmodernism; postmodern philosophy; postmodern art; postmodern architecture; postmodern theatre; narrative deconstruction; displacement.;

    Abstract : Today’s world has undergone through a variety of changes shifting from metaphysical way of thinking into postmodernism which has left its footprint in the aspects of literature, art and theatre. But architecture doesn’t reflect those changes in the theatrical world because buildings are not adjusted to the postmodern performances. READ MORE

  5. 4. When Contrasts Joined The Circus : How Defying & Obeying Gravity Revitalized a Suffering Art Form Called 'Circus'

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Christel Klan Stjernebjerg; [2017]
    Keywords : Circus; Circus Performances; Arts; Artistry; Dance;

    Abstract : This Master thesis is about Western circus performance styles. It is the aim to describe, compare, and contextualise traits and tendencies of early Western circus performances (EWCP) and contemporary Western circus performances (CWCP) through academic terms. READ MORE

  6. 5. (S)examensarbete

    University essay from Konstfack/Textil

    Author : Cecilia Pfaff; [2016]
    Keywords : art; textile art; knitting; crochet; sex; sexy; sexiness; Instagram; selfie; performance; sun chair; craftivism; Dolly Parton; body; feminism; #xxxjobb; #123sexy; konst; textilkonst; stickning; virkning; sex; sexig; sexighet; Instagram; selfie; performance; solstol; craftivism; Dolly Parton; kropp; feminism; #xxxjobb; #123sexy;

    Abstract : Preface: Thank you to all the women in my life who have supported me through this process; to my mother, to my other mother (Susan), to Kara, to Jordan and, of course, to Dolly. Summary: (S)examensarbete is a journey through which I have questioned if knitting can be sexy. READ MORE