Geneses of Postmodern Art Technology As Iconology Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies Series

Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp's idea that the artwork does not have to be physically made by its creator. Products of mass culture and technology can be used just as well as traditional media. This idea became influential because of a widespread naturalization of technology - where technology becomes something lived in as well as used. Postmodern art embodies this attitude. To explain why, Paul Crowther investigates topics such as eclecticism, the sublime, deconstruction in art and philosophy, and Paolozzi's Wittgenstein-inspired works.

Introduction: Technology As Iconology

Chapter 1 – Contingent Objects, Permanent Eclecticism

Chapter 2 - The Eclectic Range of Postmodern Art

Chapter 3 - Space, Power, and Complexity: The Modern and Postmodern Sublimes

Chapter 4 – Deconstruction in Art and Philosophy

Chapter 5 – Subconscious Circuitry: Paolozzi’s Wittgenstein and the Signs of Postmodernism

Chapter 6 – Post-Postmodernism?

Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at Alma Mater Europaea – Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis in Slovenia.