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Introduction to Critical Theory

Introduction to Critical Theory. Becky Opsata. Modernity. The Age of Enlightenment (1600-1800) Industrial Revolution (1800’s) Great societal upheaval Mobility of labor, alienation of labor Technological changes, media and transport Birth of the nation-state.

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Introduction to Critical Theory

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  1. Introduction to Critical Theory Becky Opsata

  2. Modernity The Age of Enlightenment (1600-1800) Industrial Revolution (1800’s) Great societal upheaval Mobility of labor, alienation of labor Technological changes, media and transport Birth of the nation-state

  3. The impact of alienation of labor

  4. What technology brings to you: country kareoke

  5. Modern Dance: D1 gets down at the NDT

  6. Modernity • Replacement of religion with science and reason • Belief in rational self as individuals that have “rights” • Belief in coherent society and grand narratives • Creation of the nation state

  7. Adam believes he has individual rights, but oh is he wrong

  8. Transition from Modernism to Post Modernism as exemplified in Art

  9. The Old Masters and Classical Painting

  10. Albrect 1570

  11. Botecelli 1370

  12. Bronzino 1550

  13. Canal 1735

  14. Raphael

  15. Old Master/Renaissance Style Characteristics of this type of painting??

  16. Next: Impressionism

  17. Picasso 1907

  18. Picasso

  19. Cezanne

  20. Monet

  21. Van Gogh

  22. Early 1900’s - Impressionism • Characteristics of this type of painting?

  23. Next: Abstraction

  24. Klee

  25. Pollock

  26. Rauchenberg

  27. Abstraction Taken to the Extreme

  28. Duchamp 1917

  29. Duchamp 1951

  30. Manzoni 1962

  31. Kosuth – 1986 (Text is Freud)

  32. Kosuth 1989

  33. Lewitt – 1971 – “4 Cubes”

  34. Kosuth 1989

  35. Sue and Sylvia: Abstraction Taken to the Extreme

  36. Morris 1965 “Untitled - Beams

  37. Abstraction What is characteristic of this type of art?

  38. Art Transitioned from Modern to Postmodern • Old Masters = represents reality • Cubism, Impressionism = Crisis in representation of reality • Abstraction = presents the unpresentable • Non-presentation/Avant-Garde questions who makes art and who can say what is “art”

  39. Debate Transitioned from Modern to Postmodern The DA The Critique The Performance

  40. Re-Occurring Questions of Postmodernism • Representation of Reality – what is real? There is no absolute, universal truth of reality.

  41. Baudrillard

  42. Re-occurring questions of postmodernism 2) Legitimacy and Power – who has the right to decide what is “real” and “normal”

  43. Who says what is normal?

  44. What is normal?

  45. In Sum, PoMo is a critique of universal claims. It believes there is not one truth, but there are multiple ways of representing/presenting the world. It discusses power relations – who has it and why.

  46. Key PoMo Concepts • Structuralism/post-structuralism (The birth of critical theory comes from Linguistics.) Sturcturalism: DeSaussure & Levi-Strauss in the late 1800’s-early 1900’s. Looked for structure in language. Poststructuralism: Language is arbitrary and socially created.

  47. Discussing the meaning of words

  48. Keys 2) Deconstruction Derrida There is nothing outside of the text http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~dclark/ClarkrememberingJD.htm

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