Perspectives: Postmodernism Key Words 4

• Avant-garde
• New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature. Favouring or introducing new and experimental ideas and methods.
• Nostalgia
• A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.
• Appropriation
• The direct duplication, coping or incorporation of an image/object from an identified source by an artist who represents it in a different context, thus altering its meaning and questioning notions of originally and authenticity.
• Pastiche
• A cultural artefact composed from elements appropriated from other works. The term can be used in a derogatory sense to indicate lack of originality or to refer to works that involve a deliberate and playfully imitative tribute.
• Parody
• An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
• Irony
• The use of words/images to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
• Ideology
• A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
• Genre
• A style or category of art, music, or literature. Any form or type of communication in any mode with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time
• Sherrie Levine
• An American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. Some of her work consists of exact photographic reproductions of the work of other photographers such as Walker Evans, Eliot Porter and Edward Weston. Levine's methods of appropriating and citing the works of important 20th century male artists established her as a consequential artist of postmodernism.