Comments on: Somebody Please Explain What “Post-modernism” Is: Interview with Gretchen Holmes http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/somebody-please-explain-what-post-modernism-is-interview-with-gretchen-holmes/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sioban Lombardi http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/somebody-please-explain-what-post-modernism-is-interview-with-gretchen-holmes/comment-page-1/#comment-7882 Sioban Lombardi Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:11:40 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=18930#comment-7882 All of the above are merely symptoms of the Postmodern situtation. In fact, it is a symptom of the Postmodern that has required the market to continually replace existing markets with other tropes (i.e. the omnipresence of relational aesthetics) to maintain the existence of markets. Postmodernism is, in fact, a socio-economic condition of late capitalism. It is marked by the exchange of information in lieu of experience. One does not have to travel to Venice or Paris, when they can experience the idea of those cities by travelling to Las Vegas. Consider the many museum goers who stand in front of a masterwork, only to eperience it mediated through the image they capture ( in zeros and ones) on their smart phone. Morgan's book is excellent, I had him as a professor, but if you want to truly understand the larger and more important scope of Postmodernism read Fredric Jameson. All of the above are merely symptoms of the Postmodern situtation. In fact, it is a symptom of the Postmodern that has required the market to continually replace existing markets with other tropes (i.e. the omnipresence of relational aesthetics) to maintain the existence of markets. Postmodernism is, in fact, a socio-economic condition of late capitalism. It is marked by the exchange of information in lieu of experience. One does not have to travel to Venice or Paris, when they can experience the idea of those cities by travelling to Las Vegas. Consider the many museum goers who stand in front of a masterwork, only to eperience it mediated through the image they capture ( in zeros and ones) on their smart phone. Morgan’s book is excellent, I had him as a professor, but if you want to truly understand the larger and more important scope of Postmodernism read Fredric Jameson.

]]> By: Diane Thodos http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2012/01/somebody-please-explain-what-post-modernism-is-interview-with-gretchen-holmes/comment-page-1/#comment-6244 Diane Thodos Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:29:11 +0000 http://chicagoartmagazine.com/?p=18930#comment-6244 Dear Kathryn, I think one of the best books I have found that explains the Postmodernism situation in the art world (both in art and criticism) is Robert C. Morgan's book The End of the Art World - the first couple chapters - introduction and Pages 3 - 41. For me it really clears the air of all the confusion. Dear Kathryn,

I think one of the best books I have found that explains the Postmodernism situation in the art world (both in art and criticism) is Robert C. Morgan’s book The End of the Art World – the first couple chapters – introduction and Pages 3 – 41. For me it really clears the air of all the confusion.

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