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an>Unlike how the unconscious plays a big part in modernism, in post-modernism there is a little faith or almost no faith at all put in a unconscious as a source of creative and personal authenticity. It’s all been well thought through, gets done by intentionally.

 

Post modernists has often been criticised for being pessimist but how can one be optimist when for example trying to create an awareness of mass consumption, as we live in a consumers society. One of the leading examples of post-modern take on mass consumption is the works of ‘Andy Warhol’.

 

His works on commercial culture showcases the random play of a consciousness. Its displays the conflicts between the marketing and art.

 

I want to talk about Andy Warhol’s response when given at an interview with G.R. Swenson in year 1963, he said; “I want everybody to think alike” and also “I think everybody should be a machine”. What he was actually trying to exploit was that American Consumer culture. He was trying to point out the difference between the abundantly satisfied capitalist West and the deprivation of communist East.”Russia is doing it under strict government. It’s happening here all by itself ...Everybody looks alike and acts a like and we are getting more and more the same way”. (Modern Art in the common culture by Thomas Crow). His most famous portrait series that of Marilyn Monroe falls in to this category, his interpretation of women’s reduction to a mass-commodity fetish.

 

Post-modernism and Consumer society

Even today concept of postmodernism still is not accepted widely or even understood. Its maybe that some of the hesitance to it comes from the lack of knowledge to works that it covers. We can list numbers of varieties that can be called post modernism which can be found in all the arts, for example; pop buildings by Robert Venturi, poetry by John Ashbery, pop art by Andy Warhol, in music john cage, in film Godard...ext through this list there are two important points to make, most of the postmodernism that I mentioned on the list, we could say that they are specific reactions against the forms of high modernism of which conquered the university, art gallery, foundations and museums and we can say that postmodernism seeks to displace modernism. Second key point is the disappearance of the older distinction between high culture and mass-popular culture. It seems it’s increasingly difficult to draw the line between the high art and commercial forms.

 

One of the most significant practices in postmodernism is Pastiche. Both pastiche and parody involved to imitate and made mimicry of other styles. Parody banks on the uniqueness of those styles, seizes on their eccentricities and produces an imitation that mocks the original piece. Even though, great parodist should have some sort of secret sympathy for the original, just to be able 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。