Jean Baudrillard

The online article focuses on Jean Baudrillard who analysed diverse subjects within Post-modernism. One of these subjects is the rise of consumerism, he suggests a “hyper reality” is created as buyers feel at ease and free of risk and anxiety when shopping.

Jean Baudrillard Post-modernist provocateur and cultural theorist who blamed consumerism for destroying reality
Times Online, March 7, 2007, Viewed 13 April 2011
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1483898.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2

New food culture or a new threat?

This articles focuses on small shops such as butchers and bakers which are threatened by the increase of supermarket branches opening, for example this article concentrates on Waitrose. Smaller shops fear they will eventually be put out of business as it is suggested that public prefer shopping for groceries with recognisable labels.

Barkham, P.
New food culture or a new threat? Waitrose targets towns, The Guardian, Saturday 17 May 2008,http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/17/johnlewis.supermarkets, viewed April 13 2011

Malls in the Post-modern Cities

This article focuses on concept of the modern shopping mall. With the rise of consumerism society has seen a steady increase in the popularity of the shopping mall as a ’hang out’ destinations for families and youths.

Cotrau, D.
Malls and the Holy Trinity of Teens: Pleasure, Leisure and Consumption in Transylvania.
Journal for the study of Religions and Ideologies; December 2008, Vol,7, Issue 21, p3-19
EBSCOhost, Article, viewed 11 April 2011

The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock's Abstractions

Cernuschi, C, & Herczynski, A 2008, The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock's Abstractions, Art Bulletin, 90, 4, pp. 616-639, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 13 April 2011.

The article looks at the implementation of the poured technique and the reorientation of artistic activity from the wall to the floor as the most original and influential contributions of painter Jackson Pollock to the history of art. Art critic Rosalind Krauss views Pollock's deployment of horizontality as a medium as representing a radical regression from the intellectual, disembodied, optical way of perceiving the world that stems from humanity's vertical posture. According to the article, the technique allows for maximum control of the paint.

Reinventing Subversion, Ceramics: Art & Perception

DeBlasi, T 2008, Reinventing Subversion, Ceramics: Art & Perception, 74, pp. 71-74, Humanities International Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 13 April 2011.

The article features painter and ceramist Caroline Cheng. She has become a force in developing new art talent while preserving ceramic techniques. The underlying concept of her work is seeing the traditional anew and re-examining the relationships of China's long history and traditions in the context of their usefulness. When dealing with social commentary, her work has been described as sarcastic and irreverent. Her approach in "Mao As Ho Chi Minh" is reasoned and subdued, creating a work of reserve and calm. It was accomplished through the use of muted colours and orderly placement of medium-toned patterns.

Warhol and the negative dialectics of subversion

Murray, M 2005, Nothing happening: Warhol and the negative dialectics of subversion, European Journal of American Culture, 24, 1, pp. 61-83, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 13 April 2011.

Andy Warhol is associated with pop art,which is often thought of as an American,populist,commercial,superficial and ahistorical cultural form. Yet both Warhol and pop have historical and intellectual influences that are European,elitist and political. These influences remain largely unexamined, although something of them is registered in a common critical sense that Warhol's art satirizes capitalism. This paper seeks to reconsider Warhol's work with reference to neglected aspects of it.

Postmodern Artists

http://www.understandingduchamp.com/

Marcel Duchamp, creator of 'The Fountain' he created a series of 'ready mades' by altering them slightly. He goes on to justify the use of ready mades as he says it does not matter if the piece was not made by whoever, it is the fact that he chose it himself and decided to use it himself. The website states: At the time nobody understood what Duchamp was talking about but 50 years later everyday objects would be common place in art.

The people who did in-fact use the everyday objects are the postmodernists we know today.