Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Post Modernist design theroy.

Form (female) follows function (male).
1960's - beginnings
1970's- Established as term.
1980's- recognisable style.
1980s-90s- dominate theoretical

-Grace Jones(1985) slave to the rhythem- cover designed by Jean-Paul Goude.
- Book- the postmodern condition: a report on knowledge.

-Modernism - anti women and anti Black.

- The Memphis Group- 1981 formed, Diverse group of artisits.
- Culture- masculinity- MODERNISM.
- Nature- Feminie.(not modernism

Patriarchy- a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line.
- a system of society or government in which men hold power and women are largely excluderd from it.

Conitiations of :
White-
-pure
-clean
Black-
-dirt
-dark.

Logocentrism- 'writing is noting but the representation of speech, it is bizzare that one gives more care to the determing of the image than to the object.'(Jean- Jacques Rousseau)

Helen Cixous ( 1967) the laugh of the medusa. she looks at the terms for blacks vs whites , Male vs Female.

Phallogocentrism- Male - Male society.

West-         
-familiar
-moral                      
-Rational
-culture
-head
-science
vs
East-
-exotic
-Amorl
-irrational
-nature
-heart
-myth

Hegemony- not the way the world is not reality.




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