The following contemporary artists both represent their works in a post-modern frame. Post-modern can include irony and paradox‚ appropriation and pastiche and intersexuality. Gordon Bennett and Fiona Hall fit into one of these categories. Bennett’s painting Outsider‚ Oil and acrylic on canvas‚ 1988 is a violent painting using appropriation of Vincent Van Gogh’s artwork‚ and the treatment of aboriginals in today’s society. Fiona Hall’s sculpture of the Nelumbo nucisera‚ lotus‚ elum‚ thamarei‚ aluminium
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satirize the triviality of 18th-century high society through exaggeration and parody. Basing his poem on an actual incident that occurred among some of his acquaintances‚ Pope intended his story to put the episode into humorous perspective and encourage his friends to laugh at their own actions. A mock epic is a poem dealing with petty subject matter in the exalted style of the great literary epics. This genre is a form of parody for satirical purposes. The poem uses the trivial story of the stolen lock
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Assignment #1 The first major theoretical perspective is the functionalist perspective‚ which also goes by the names functionalism and structural functionalism. These types of perspectives are commonly based on the theory that society is a stable‚ orderly system. Under the functionalist perspective‚ a society is said to be composed of many different parts‚ which are interrelated and serves different functions that in the end contributes to the stability of the society. Many factors‚ such as education
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optimism or technological pessimism? In The Idea of Technology and Postmodern Pessimism Leo Marx‚ a leading historian of technology and American culture‚ argues that while technological optimism had been the default mode of American culture throughout most of its history‚ technological pessimism asserted itself to an unprecedented degree in the second half of the twentieth century. His essay traces the roots of what he terms “postmodern pessimism” in the earlier‚ dominant technological optimism and
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Analyse the presentations of conflict in "Animal Farm" Introduction George Orwell wrote "Animal Farm" in 1945 as a parody on the Russian Revolution. Orwell was a socialist and felt that communism did not work and that there was corruption in the leadership. The novel struggled to be published initially as people recognised the subtle insults which it contained. Orwell wanted to show how ignorance and indifference could lead to a horrific life for the ordinary people. The novel is a satire using
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its literary parody. Don Quixote parodies the anticipation of chivalric affection: lone knights had lost their military essence. The dominant classes still served the ideology of chivalry. The loss chivalry can be tied into the War of the Alpujarras. The knights‚ the caballeros de cuantia‚ were obligated to keep their horse and armor ready for serving the king‚ but slowly and shamefully they were unprepared. The knight’s individual language of knightly service represents the parody realism of chivalry
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marked by attitudes of skepticism which challenges many of the ideals of Modernism. As an opposition towards the modern era‚ Postmodernism can be identified in art through its related terms such as fragmentation‚ hyper-realism‚ deconstruction‚ pastiche and ambiguity. Specifically‚ postmodernism refutes such concepts as reality‚ the ability to reach perfection‚ absolute truth‚ the structures of capitalism‚ ideals represented within popular culture‚ political values and other core concepts related
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of the uneducated and weak. The pigs manipulate the working class similar to how Trotsky and Stalin did in the Russian revolution. Orwell criticises how the pigs in the Russian revolution manipulate and control the working class by using irony and parody. Animals farm is an allegory of the failure of the Russian revolution and the socialist ideals that created the Russian revolution‚ leading to the establishment of a political elite that perpetuated gross inequality. Orwell uses the events in
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Kozinski ruled the song was protected as a parody under the trademark doctrine of nominative use and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. He also threw out the defamation lawsuit that Aqua’s record company filed against Mattel. Kozinski concluded his ruling by saying‚ "The parties are advised to chill."[4][5] The case was dismissed‚ and in the process‚ it garnered lots
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many different subgenres such as Comedy of manners‚ Parody‚ Romantic comedy and Comedy horror (which contains Black comedy and Zombie comedy). Comedy of manners satirizes manners and affections of a social class and it is intended to show the audience what lies behind traditions and manners of society. Parody movies mock other works‚ genres‚ people or fictional characters. The audience of these movies should be familiar with the source of the parody. Romantic comedy like its title is a combination of
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