Jan
24
Sherrie Levine: So What?
January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
by Peter Zimmerman
“This in turn suggests that art practices predicated on the production of signature styles rather than constantly modified interventions may be especially vulnerable to neutralization of their purported critique. The history of postmodernist photography overall would appear to confirm this analysis. As various theorists have argued, a position of resistance can never be [...]
Oct
7
Simulating the Death of Modernism
October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Joan Bowlen
“Be very sure that this man…has an aim loftier than that of a mere flánuer, an aim more general, something other than the figurative pleasure of circumstance. He is looking for that quality that you must allow me to call ‘modernity’…He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element [...]
Oct
5
A Potential Third Dimension? Cindy Sherman In Between Modernism and Postmodernism
October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Peter Zimmerman
The following essay is based on a reading of a 1981 feature by Andy Grundberg on the work of Cindy Sherman:
Cindy Sherman: A Playful and Political Post-Modernist
By Andy Grundberg
Published November 22, 1981
Grundberg, in opening his article on Cindy Sherman, presents a broad look at the history of Modernist photography. He claims that the [...]
Sep
29
Monday Quotables
September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
“Thus, if one of the major claims of modernist art theory was the insistence on the self-sufficiency and purity of the work of art, postmodern practice hinges on the assertion of contingency and the primacy of cultural codes. It follows that a significant proportion of postmodern art based on photographic usages is animated by a [...]