High Postmodernism and Its Self-Understanding. Seminal Postmodernist Work of Art, Literature and Visual Culture

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Art - History of Art, grade: A, University College London, language: English, abstract: This work attempts to examine the movement of Postmodernism in retrospective with a special emphasis on its signature elements such as the "metanaratives", the "hyperreality", the "simulacra and simulation" and additional attached motifs like feminism, post-colonialism, gender and racial equality. It seeks to introduce the reader to a core set of characteristics of postmodernism through a close interpretation of seminal works of art (for example Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol), literature (for example Sonny's Blues, Recitatif) and cinema (for example Blade Runner) that have been considered as postmodernist.

Dr Martin Mares is a British historian and scholar. Mares is a researcher at University College London, a member of the Royal Historical Society, and a research associate at Oxford University.