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    Zheng 1

    Xinyu Zheng

    Gregory Williams

    AH393 Contemporary Art 1980 to Now

    Jul. 10, 2017

    Entering Postmodernism: Change of Form and Concept

    Starting in the mid-1960s, more and more artists noticed the limit of contemporary art

    forms to express their concepts, mostly through painting, sculpture, architecture, orlater

    photography. When a genre of art experiences its golden period, artists who practice this genre

    the most would reach the boundary that connects them to the next stage, such as Manet, Cezanne,

    Seurat, and other art pioneers. Enlightened by their early predecessors, who largely contributed

    to the fundamentals of Modernism, the later Modernists also started to practice with new formats

    to express art, which eventually led to the controversial Postmodernism style with the most

    various forms of art. However, the path to the next period is always covered with brambles and

    taunts.

    Even till now, Postmodernism always relates to confusing, barely understandable, and

    lacking in traditional sense as art for the public. As Paul Wood proposed, as a descriptive term,

    Postmodernism has no universally accepted definition, does not refer to a specific style, and

    shares no relevance to a historical period, region, or event (5). In addition, a lot of

    Postmodernism practitioners are interested in experimenting with any new form and media that

    can be used to express the concept of art rather than keeping the art in stable shape. Due to the

    lack of a standard for judging and analyzing, those various early attempts are thought of as far

    away from the classical art aesthetics (8).


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    After the difficult beginning phase of Postmodernism, Wood discusses a watershed

    period that occurred between 1965~1975 (8). Being challenged by Minimal Art and Pop Art, the

    late Modernism style in the mid-1970s was largely replaced by Conceptualism, the early form of

    Postmodernism. With the highly recovered economy and developed technology, art was applied

    in multiple fields of human life, such as with furniture, space layout, and the continuingly

    emerging new medias. Artists of Postmodernism seek a way to move art out of the studio and

    from relatively flat formats into spaceor to build the space as art. The sculptor Donald Judd

    claimed that their art is something structurally and procedurally of contemporary reality the feel

    and look of openness, extendibility, accessibility, publicness the product of clear decision

    rather than groping craft (9). On the other hand, the completeness was no longer their

    consideration, since it was already challenged by the much earlier style of Impressionism. Then,

    the form of displaying the process of creating art was born.

    Considered as the first phase of Postmodernism, the Conceptual Art shares the same

    thought of art with Postmodernism, which emphasizes an idea itself rather than the standard or

    shape of art. This concept largely reduced the importance of all the traditional formation and

    standards of art, and it also leads the world to a new consideration of judging art. With the

    developing step of human society, the art also requires innovation. The Postmodernism comes

    with the tide of development, which as Wood proposes, mixes photographs and texts,

    performances and installations, and making increasing use of the new technology of video (21).
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    Works Cited

    Wood, Paul. Themes in Contemporary Art: Inside the Whale. New Haven: Yale UP in

    Association with The Open U, 2004. Print. Art of the Twentieth Century (Yale University

    Press); [v. 4].

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