3. Is The Simpsons a send-up of the
twee American family sitcoms
that came before it, or is it a
send-up of American life?
…and to what is the distinction
between representation and ‘real’
life anyway?
11. elevate the everyday to the category of art
Andy Warhol, 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
12. Peter Blake, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (cover), 1967
Pop Art
13. collapse of the distinction between high and low culture
collapse in the grand
narratives
politics religion science
14. Grand narratives (or
metanarratives)
according to Jean-Francois Lyotard…
…established universal principles
…lay privileged claims to ‘truth’ and
‘authenticity
…crisis in the status of
human knowledge in
Western societies
15. …crisis in the status of
human knowledge in
Western societies
Arts and culture
…how do represent and give expression
to a world if there is no truth or
authenticity?
Politics
…what do ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’,
‘progressive’ mean?
Education
18. …we live in an environment
saturated with media images…
Simulacrum
identitical copies without an original
Hyperrealism
substitution of images for the ‘real’ thing
19. ‘It is no longer a question of a
false representation of reality
(ideology), but of concealing
the fact that the real is no
longer real.’
20. ‘It is no longer a question of a
false representation of reality
(ideology), but of concealing
the fact that the real is no
longer real.’
24. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qxUqwrNDA
…a world in which
stylistic innovation
is no longer
possible, all that is
left is to imitate
dead styles, to
speak through the
masks and with
the voices of the
styles in the
imaginary
museum.
25. Pulp Fiction, Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik-RsDGPI5Y
…the history of aesthetic styles
displaces ‘real’ history