Hipster thread: critique art from your ivory tower

[Honggweilo]

Title says all

so what is it going to be? Rad or Lame? :rolleyes:

[Honggweilo]

ill start

http://geldrop-mierlo.sp.nl/include/afd/afd_pickies/sp-protest.jpg

New ellection poster of the Dutch Socialist Party. It says "PROTEST", but its fucking red on white.. NOBODY IS GOING TO SEE THE FUCKING POSTER! its like the worst contrast ever (its even worse printed), and the lamest oneliner in one go!

note the actual usefull information is in fine print.

bottomline, lame :rolleyes:

[Os Cangaceiros]

Die kunst ist tot, dada uber alles

[SamV]

We need a poster that would be both vintage and postmodern at the same time.

It would be so ironic.

[Ele'ill]

http://lasophielle.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/hot20lead20for20patriarchy_preview.jpg

[SamV]

NO NONE OF THIS IS INDIE ENOUGH. Uhg okay here is mine:

its so fucking indie.

[Honggweilo]

NO NONE OF THIS IS INDIE ENOUGH. Uhg okay here is mine:

its so fucking indie.

indy like hitler going to artskool indy, its just bad (not as in micheal jacksons bad, just like in it sucks).

[Minima]

how about some theooorrrrrryyyy!!


Here`s one way I try to understand contemporary art: In basic, one basic break in between modernism and postmodernism is that: in modernism, interpretation makes sense of incomprehensible art.
In post-modernism, interpretation problematic what seems to be perfectly inoffensive, and regular `comprehensible` art.

What is usually left unnoticed in the multitude of attempts to interpret the break between modernism and postmodernism is the way this break affects the very status of interpretation.

"Both modernism and postmodernism conceive of interpretation as inherent to its object: without it we do not have access to the work of art - the traditional paradise where, irrespective of his/her versatility in the artifice of interpreting, everybody can enjoy the work of art, is lost. The break between modernism and postmodernism is thus to be located within this inherent relationship between the text and its commentary. A modernist work of art is by definition 'incomprehensible'; it functions as a shock, as the irruption of a trauma which undermines the complacency of our daily routine and resists being integrated into the symbolic universe of the prevailing ideology; thereupon, after this first encounter, interpretation enters the stage and enables us to integrate this shock - it informs us, say, that this trauma registers and points towards the shocking depravity of our very 'normal' everyday lives ... In this sense, interpretation is the conclusive moment of the very act of reception: T.S. Eliot was quite astute when he supplemented his Waste Land with notes on literary references such as one would expect from an academic commentary."

"What postmodernism does, however, is the very opposite: its objects par excellence are products with a distinctive mass appeal (films like Blade Runner, Terminator or Blue Velvet) - it is for the interpreter to detect in them an exemplification of the most esoteric theoretical finess of Lacan, Derrida or Foucault. If, then, the pleasure of the modernist interpretation consists in the effect of recognition which 'gentrifies' the disquieting uncanniness of its object ('Aha, now I see the point of this apparent mess!'), the aim of the postmodernist treatment is to estrange its very initial homeliness: 'You think what you see is a simple melodrama even your senile granny would have no difficulties in following? Yet without taking into account the underlying theoretical edifice/ you've totally missed the point!"

interesting take don`t you think =)


Slavoj Zizek: "Introduction: Alfred Hitchcock, or , The Form and its Historical Mediation", in Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock), ed. S. Zizek (London: Verso, 1992)

[Red Phalanx]

http://lasophielle.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/hot20lead20for20patriarchy_preview.jpg

I'll bet she misses.

[Тачанка]

Sexist!

[Aloysius]

http://lasophielle.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/hot20lead20for20patriarchy_preview.jpg
That's so deck.

[Honggweilo]

http://lasophielle.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/hot20lead20for20patriarchy_preview.jpg

anarcha-primitivists using hot lead? sounds as oxymoronic as "primitivism, a powerpoint presentation" :rolleyes:

[Ingraham Effingham]

http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/user_photos/1215139/177b8dc0ee61063892a912f42df5d955_original.jpg?59b3 1aa1

[Ingraham Effingham]

http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/user_photos/1216056/a6fa0c159d2b3b25405e5051c5b8ecfe_original.jpg?59b3 1aa1

[Red Phalanx]

^^^Terrible^^^^

[Pretty Flaco]

damn you bumped some old ass shit