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WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN AESTHETICS? ANALYSE THE WORK OF AN ARTIST/WRITER IN ANY MEDIUM. HOW IS THIS WORK POSTMODERN?
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2) WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN AESTHETICS? ANALYSE THE WORK OF AN ARTIST/WRITER IN ANY MEDIUM. HOW IS THIS WORK POSTMODERN? Through an examination of postmodernism theory it can evidently be seen that it is fundamentally an aesthetic that has derived through the cultural movement of modernism. Through the differences between the movements, however, the characteristics of postmodern aesthetics, such as fragmentation of the individual subject, impossibility for originality, pastiche, self reflexivity, appropriation and bricolage, can be clearly distinguished. Through an examination of Baz Luhrmann's film's 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Moulin Rouge' in relation to such aesthetics it will be clearly seen how these works are undeniably postmodern. Postmodernism is a cultural movement which is seen to have evidently emerged in the 1960's. Many theorists believed that modernism had reached its full capability and that there was nothing else that could be achieved and therefore the notion...
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