Post-medium in layman's terms
In 1998, Fredric Jameson responded to this development by proposing that the recent return of aesthetics needs to be understood in the context of conceptual art practices since the 1960s, and within the broader sociological phenomenon of postmodernity.
Jameson identifies a historical conjunction between the post-sixties demise of modernist claims for art's autonomy allied to medium specificity and attempts in recent years to revivify aesthetics. He speaks of the legacy of conceptual art, and its postmodern derivations, which endorsed the abandonment of traditional media in favor of hybrid artistic forms and technologies. Conceptual and postmodern practices of impure and mixed media displaced formalist definitions of the medium based on the support's material properties, or as the perpetuation of distinct artistic traditions.
Drawing on Jameson's analysis, Rosalind Krauss describes this state of affairs as the "post-medium condition" of contemporary artistic production.
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krauss is a fucking moron. there is no post-medium. post-modern medium, perhaps. "post-medium" by its creation of a term through the hybrid of a base term "medium" referring to the medium an artwork is present in, and the prefix "post" meaning after, would make the term in its purest form of hybrid construction be defined as after-medium. this is complete bullshit. there is still medium in post-modern artwork, hybrid, contemporary, multi, or cross medium as it may be - medium is still present and essential. this bullshit constructed term strictly implies the absence of medium, which is completely absurd. without medium, there is no art. krauss is a moron and anyone who uses this term is a moron. youre much too bright to be limited by this feeble minded attempt at pop-culture jargon. i refuse to read any paper you write that contains this term, and thats the last i will say on the subject. the end.
ReplyDeletethere is no longer use for the idea of medium, since there is no longer a need to classify art.
ReplyDeletethe post-medium era is a reaction to the times when we did classify art, much in the way post-modern is a reaction to modern philosophies.
post-modern medium is close, because post-medium is an inevitability of post modern thought, but the phrase "post modern medium" implies that it is some sort of other medium like "painting medium," which is wrong.
it implies the irrelevence of media
tbc.. class