POSTMODERN VISUAL STRATEGIES For the postmodernist contradiction and

POSTMODERN VISUAL STRATEGIES

“For the postmodernist, contradiction and complexity are celebrated as facts of life and sources of inspirations” (Launching the Imagination, p. 171)

APPROPRIATION § The re-use of an existing object; the act of taking possession of and/or reassigning the purpose of an object or ideas.

Marcel Duchamp

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Wallace Berman

JUXTAPOSITION § Bringing together radically different elements to create intentional clashes.

Meret Oppenheim

Robert Rauschenberg

John Baldessari Two Highrises (with Disruptions)/Two Witnesses (Red and Green) 1990

LAYERING § Used to create complexity and/or contradictory meaning

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Paperrad

Re. Contextualization § Using a familiar image/object in relationship to pictures, symbols, or texts with which it is not usually associated.

Kehinde Wiley

Ad-Busters

TEXT + IMAGE § Combining words with pictures/objects to expand emotional impact and create interplay that adds to the complexity.

Barbara Kruger

Ed Ruscha

HYBRIDITY § Using different mediums (mixed-media) to create a unified conceptual statement; cultural blending – for example, combining spirituality with cyberculture.

Mariko Mori

Yolanda Lopez

GAZING § Who is doing the “looking”? § Who is being “looked at”? § How do these relationships effect and affect power dynamics?

Betye Saars

Paul Gauguin

REPRESENTIN’ § Proclaiming an identity; the strategy of locating and expressing one’s (artistic) voice within one’s personal history and culture

David Wojnarowicz

Shirin Neshat