Konik, South African Journal of Art History

Cherise Prinsloo

BE2010-0496

History of graphic design

Assignment 1.8

Konik "South African Journal of Art History

Konik describes post modern art as a discretion of the "grand Narrative" of the art movement. This meant that her theory is based on the destruction of the essence of the art world. She states that there is a disregard for the "bigger picture", there is no concern for the individual, art has become a depiction of the 17th century society, where the general; mentality is based on what id dictated to the masses rather then the individual.

She states that the world no longer revered the justice we strife for during the 60s, we are now belittling the mind of the individual and replacing the thought patterns of society with the a structure which has followed the techno era. Globalisation in media and artistic interpretation. This described the idea that the only thoughts that are accepted and justified are those that can communicate on a global scale, much like the manifesto of the most modern movement. This leads to the globalisation of the individual thought, there for no original thought is encouraged or developed.

Her reference in this piece refer to a film which was based on the development of technologies and the dehumanisation of the world, which results in a world that is no longer just a fictitious story, but also describes the world ewe live in today. This is as a reflection of the post modernist approach to communication. This is because communication today exists on a global scale where there is no more human contact per say, and people have become desensitised to the empathetic ways of the previous generation.